So about 20 minutes ago we had a really strong earthquake.

Um uh, we experienced here in Tokyo, it was actually the epicenter was up in Fukushima.

The news is saying 7.37 point four on, on the, our Richter scale Shindo six, the intensity, which is really strong.

That's up there in Fukushima here.

I don't know what it was.

Maybe Shindo 43 or four.

Um, we'll get that data later, but after these earthquakes happen, Your heart really starts to pump a little adrenaline hit you and I'm still feeling that right now, even though it's been about 20, a little bit, maybe a little bit more than 20 minutes later.

I'm not sure what to do.

Sometimes you just feel lost like a deer in headlights when, when one of these hit uh, actually when, when it started to, before it hit um, the earth, you could feel the rumbling of an earthquake coming, You could feel there was some movement, geological movement underneath the ground.

Um, and I could just feel that for the last couple of days, something was gonna happen.

I don't know, I said it in the livestream today and this is what it looks like.

Um, I took the video, we're okay.

This is what it looked like and it sounded like because you could hear the shaking of the apartment building.

Just, just watch here.

I took it with my iphone.

Okay.

Okay.

So I went in to make sure that I wanted to make sure that can I and leo were okay.

Actually, there's a baby monitor and I can see that can I had actually um gotten on top of leo and I was protecting him.

I could see it on the baby monitor.

Um my initial reactions was I was like a deer in headlight and then after a second I'm like wait I got to go and protect the family.

I'm surprised it didn't happen a little bit earlier.

I guess my first instinct was to push record.

I'm I'm literally editing, I was like editing a video waiting for the scene to render.

So um when it hit I was in this room and it was like what this is gonna be, this is gonna be a big one and my heart's still kind of racing from this.

Um right now on on the news here in Japan you can see on the tv and the over there you can see it's it's telling you where the epicenter of the earthquake is.

It's telling you that this is the the depth of the earthquake.

It's telling you, you can see the yellow line on the right side there that there's a tsunami warning for the coast of Fukushima.

Some of those places that I've spent some time there.

That's I think this is what is that case, Anouma wow, he's in Sendai right now that that reporter.

So um you know a lot of people say you know like how do you an earthquake actually has a sound?

It has a rumble and maybe the rumble is just all of the buildings in the entire city moving back and forth.

But in Japan, you just hear that shaking everything shaking.

We had several things fall from the shelves in the kitchen.

Um you know the, uh, I, we didn't lose any glasses or anything like that.

Maybe it wasn't as strong, but like the images that you saw of the earthquake um that I took the video.

Um, so this is after I had gone in china is doing okay, There's a mess of a kitchen, you can see that everything is shaking the refrigerator, that bag of cookies up there at the instant ramen shaking.

And like the one thing that I learned about earthquakes is you don't know what the intensity of it is going to be when it's happening.

That's another reason not to do what I just did.

We just walk around the house just completely shocked that I'm shaking like this and recording stuff probably not the way to go.

Maybe best to get under a table or, or go into a bathtub, I don't know.

Um but initially your initial reactions are usually not very good I guess I need to be retrained, but, But really you don't know what the intensity of an earthquake is ever going to be when it hits, it can be really, really strong.

You just don't know, it could be one of these with the intensity just keeps building and building and it throws you in the air and you can't stand up anymore, which is um, this feeling that I had on the March 11 2011 earthquake when I was here, the aftershock, I went outside the second earthquake after the first big one, I went outside to the street and I couldn't stand up on the asphalt on the road, I couldn't stand up.

It felt like I was on a bus, that's how much the ground was shaking underneath me and I had to sit down on the, on the road because I was moving back and forth that much on the road.

I want you just to, this is the aftershock Of the March 11, 1 So you don't know what the intensity is going to be.

Thus the last thing you should do is go around your house filming things.

You should probably get underneath the table, which is what I didn't do.

I got some interesting footage though and I put it on twitter, I don't know, but you, you, you should, you should keep that in mind if you do or if you do come to Japan um, and you, are you feeling an earthquake, maybe the people around you are so used to it that they don't take measures, but you should um, you should take a minute to get away from windows, get underneath the table.

Um, I don't know if you can get outside, go to a safe place, a park after, after a big earthquake happens, follow people that know the evacuation plans.

If you have a restaurant, usually the, the people working there will, will be able to point you in the direction where you're supposed to be able to go, um, places that you'd be safe because in Japan, these natural disasters, they just strike just like the one that happened tonight and luckily it wasn't as strong as, as it could have been.

You just, we just don't know, I'm watching the NHK news here and it's telling us the magnitude and all the details.

Um, they have it in silence.

Shindo six, Wow, which is massive.

It looks like all of the prefectures up there also had Shindo six and Shindo five, which is the intensity of the shaking.

We're in Tokyo.

I believe we had something like a shindo four, Maybe 75 said before.

I'm not sure yet, magnitude 7.3, which is pretty high.

Um, I better just get back to work now.

I'm probably gonna get some sleep, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep because again, my heart is beating like this.

Um, I don't know if my friends are okay actually.

Um, but it's not, you know, it's not such a big earthquake here in the Tokyo region that you would call your friends.

It wasn't that sort of an event.

Um, so I think everybody, just, most majority of the city just went back to sleep.

I think like it was pretty big and then we, we felt it and then most people will go back to sleep um up in Fukushima, up in Miyagi Prefecture, which is where Sendai is probably people felt it a lot more and are cleaning up their houses and tomorrow on the news, we're going to be able to see maybe some sort of aftermath from this earthquake.

Um I don't know.

We'll see.

We're still waiting for.

It looks like there's, there's not gonna be a tsunami.

They removed the yellow line there.

That's, that's no longer there.

So it looks like the tsunami warning is over maybe.

Yeah, if you're up in the Sendai area, please do take care.

Um like when there's an earthquake that's really strong, Usually there's several aftershocks as well.

You don't know when they're gonna come.

Um So yeah, that's, that's the, that's the scariest thing.

Yeah, I was, I was in Tokyo when the 2000 and 11 1 hit and that's the scariest thing in my entire life.

I, you literally, I was editing videos then to, this is before Youtube, I was editing uh, these um, comedy videos I put on itunes back then and I just, I froze at the desk.

I still remember the position of the desk where I was, what I was looking at.

I remember the head movement.

I remember the shakes the way it went, which recalled when I made that episode at the simulation center.

It it simulated every single shake up and down.

You recall that it's like when you lived through it, you remember every single part of it, like a record player when the needle goes over those grooves to make a sound.

That's how it felt when I had to relive it in that simulator.

Um, it is the scariest going through the earthquakes is the scariest thing and the worst feeling.

We're the aftershocks because they happened for every five minutes.

It was like, um, I felt seasick, I had to go to Osaka about four or five days later for a couple of days.

Then we started to come back up to Tokyo and then see what we could do to help the volunteer because we knew people were really very bad off in the Miyagi Fukushima and Iwate areas in the volunteering.

Um, that went on for a very long time.

Um, yeah, ah, jeez, okay.

Um, if you have any questions in the comments of this video, I don't know if I wanna make it private.

I just thought of, you know, this would be the quickest way to connect with everybody and just to say and that we're okay.

Um, because I know this is gonna be hitting the news and um, I'll find a way to get back to sleep.

But yeah, for Tokyo, it's no big deal, but for the people up there and send Diane up in Tohoku on the pacific Coast.

It's kind of a big deal when this hits.

So yeah, stay safe.

Everybody, including our uh everybody in Ukraine as well.

Please stay safe if you're watching this, we got shaking up here in Tokyo.

But um please just to be safe everybody and everybody in the world when you go through an earthquake like this, you and you don't know how strong it's going to be and you do value life a little bit more seriously, You just wow.

Um it's that it's that kind of an eye opening moment when when you're in an earthquake, this was bigger than one we felt in a very long time.

So if you want to see the video you can just replay it back.

But I'm going to finish editing this video.

I don't know if I'm gonna be able to upload it tonight.

Um but probably tomorrow night.

Yeah.

Alright, maybe I'll go on the discord because I can't get any sleep.

So if you want to talk, I'll be on the discord server.

But until then see you tomorrow.

Maybe God, this is just frightening to see back.

Just the sounds mm hmm You know what, I can't, I can't the sounds of what scares me more than the movements.

Just everything sounded everything moving and creaking around you.

It's not a good sound.

It's like the Blair Witch Project where the ghosts are shaking your tent, it's kind of the same thing.

But you're you're not in a tent, you're in an apartment building and it's not as safe.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I shouldn't say Blair Witch Project.

It's after midnight.

I think you could say it three times.

I don't I don't want to think about it.

Alright, everybody just stay safe.

Goodnight.

Um I'll do my best to get to sleep if I can.

I'll be on discord maybe, I don't know.

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