Friday, March 11, 2011

I'm OK, not in Japan at the moment.

Hi,
today the biggest earthquake in more than 100 years hit Japan. 8.9 magnitude. More than the 1995 one and the one in the 1920ies.
Usually i don't post my current position here in the blog, but this is a good reason: i am in Seoul, South Korea, since Tuesday and will stay here till next Tuesday.
Thank you for all the concerned emails, facebook posts etc. I will answer them, right now i am trying to find out how my friends in Japan are doing and what's happening there.
The ones i reached so far are ok, all trains in Tokyo are not operating, mobile network is down (antenna masts broken etc.). A friend walked home from university, a way that usually takes one hour by train... and the Japanese were as scared as the foreigners when the earthquake hit.

Still many that i need to reach.

When the quake happened, i was sightseeing in Seoul. The whole day i couldn't find free WLAN, hadn't heard anything unusual. We only were a bit confused because a friend received two mails on his mobile from family in Europe asking if he was ok after the quake. We assumed this was about the 7.2 quake that happened the day before where we had already informed them that we're ok. Only in the evening we saw this shocking tsunami images on a tv and realised that something bigger is happening. And now i am finally online with my phone.
And watching CNN in the hostel. With some quite moronic commentators who didn't even know what timezone Japan is in. But at least they've shown the NHK videos several times, so i saw that.

I wish all the best for my friends and everyone in Japan right now.

So much so far, i will go write some emails now.

Seoul, out.

3 comments:

Max said...

Good to hear that you are okay and I hope you enjoy South Korea, looks like you've chosen the right week to be away. Hope your Friends and their families are okay as well.
Maybe it's time for a little refresher on this one then: http://einjahrmadrid.blogspot.com/2010/10/earthquakes-and-other-disasters.html

p.s. I like the new Design of your blog.

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