Hitting Close to Home Far Away

Japan is getting shaken up. More specifically….Niigata is rocking and rolling.

I lived in Niigata for nearly 20 years. Seems, I got out just in time.

A couple of years back the prefecture (state) was the victim of some very severe earthquakes.

Yesterday a seven point Japanese intensity scale, 5.6 on the open ended Richter scale hit the prefecture again.

My son was in the previous earthquake. He was in the car with a friend when it hit.

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They saw the trees waving about as if a typhoon was blowing. Their car rocked about as if it were a boat he tells me.

He is safe next to me now in a garage in Sunnyvale. His mother, however, is not far away from Kashiwazaki…where the girls rowed up to in their bath tubs

from Sado, where nuclear power plants have caught on fire and shut down (good fodder for the anti-nuclear power folks), trains have derailed and roads have broken apart.
The Japanese archipelago is on the lip of a super giant volcano. There are many hot springs – pimples bursting – from what is going on beneath the Sea of Japan.

Japan is going to continue to experience earthquakes…until at least one very big one does the whole country in.