Another Midnight Earthquake

We had a big earthquake in Mito at midnight.
I heard my Android phone beep.

The Meteorological Agency said that Mito had a quake of three on the Japanese scale, I felt it was severer than reported. Takahagi, where was barely survived from the tsunami last year, shook the most seriously today, measuring lower 5 on the Japanese scale.

I’ve got anxious about Tokai NPP again.
Since I learned at an anti-nuke seminar that nuclear fuel rods were so fragile that it would be inevitable to cause a meltdown if we had an quake of magnitude nine anywhere in Japan.

Tokai village has two nuclear power plants, one of which has already been shut down and the other is under maintainance.
That means Tokai No.2 NPP may be restarted in the future, so we must consider what we would do if it exploded due to a big earthquake even though it doesn’t work now.
If it had an explosion, the central Ibaraki would be ruined just like some towns and villages around Fukushima No.1 NPP.

仕事中に、地震 | An Earthquake During My Lesson

We had an earthquake in Mito again.
I was at work today for the ninth-graders’ practice test for high school entrance exam coming March 6.
It was so big that some cell phones with earthquake alert system rang during the lesson.

The cell phone beeps really made me frightened, so I began trembling and couldn’t concentrate on my lesson.
One of the students said to me, “Don’t worry, this quake is less serious than the historical one on 3/11.”

It was a little embarrassing but touching to be comforted by a student.