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Earthquakes

Filed under: — Andy @ 11:55 am

This week we had a somewhat major earthquake. As the map below shows we had a 7.1 earthquake followed by many aftershocks. Coming from California I am used to earthquakes, and thought it was fun when I felt the ones this week. However, when talking to my students it seems that all Japanese people are afraid of earthquakes and do not like them. First they tell me they hate the rain and typhoons and now they tell me they hate earthquakes. On average they dislike all the natural phenomena that I love. Bring on the tsunami.