Strong Earthquake in Japan (We’re Okay in Tokyo)

wow hey everybody so about 20 minutes ago we had a really strong earthquake um uh we experienced here in tokyo it was actually epicenter was up in fukushima the news is saying seven point three seven point four on on the uh 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 shin to four three or four um we'll get that data later but after these earthquakes happen your heart really starts to pump a little adrenaline hits you and i'm still feeling that right now um 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 i when it when it started to before it hit the earth you could feel the rumbling of an earthquake coming you could feel there was some movement a geo geological movement underneath the ground and i could just feel this for the last couple of days something was gonna happen i don't know i said it in the live stream today and this is what it looked like um i 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 just watch here i took it with my iphone um so i went in to make sure that i wanted to make sure that kanai and leo were okay actually there's a baby monitor and i can see that kanai had actually gotten on top of leo and uh was protecting him i could see it on the baby monitor my initial reactions was i was like a deer in headlight and then after a second i'm like wait i gotta 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 a 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 in my heart's still kind of racing from this um right now on on the news here in japan you can see uh on the tv and the over there you can see it's telling you where the epicenter of the earthquake is it's telling you that just the um the depth of the earthquake it's telling you um 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 um i've spent some time there that's i think this is what is that quesanuma wow he's in sendai right now that reporter so um you know a lot of people say you you know like how do you an earthquake actually has a sound it has a rumble and maybe the rumble is just all 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 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'd gone in kanai 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 the instant ramen shaking and uh 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 um not to do what i just did which is to 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 uh 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 uh it can be really really strong you just don't know it could be one of these where 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 2011 one 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 um 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 uh keep that in mind if you do or if you do come to japan um and you are you're 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 measure get away from windows uh 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're at a restaurant usually the the people working there will be able to point you in the direction where you're supposed to be able to go places that you'll 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 um as it you know could have been you we just don't know um i'm watching the nhk news here and it's telling us the magnitude and all the details um they have it inside shindo six wow which is massive and it looks like all of the prefectures up there also had shinto six and shindo five which is the intensity of the shaking where in tokyo i think i believe we had some something like a shindo four maybe shinto five shin to four i'm not sure yet magnitude 7.3 which is pretty high um i better just get back to work now i'm probably going to get some sleep but i can't i don't think i'm going to 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 i 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 felt it and then most people go back to sleep um up in fukushima up in uh 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 going to be a tsunami they removed the yellow line there that's that's uh uh 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 uh in tokyo when the the 2011 one hit and that's the scariest thing in my entire life i you literally i was editing videos then too this is before youtube i was editing uh these um comedy videos i put on itunes back then and um just you 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 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 you when you live 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 as scary as going through the earthquakes is the scariest thing and the worst feeling were 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 up in the miyagi fukushima and iwate areas and the volunteering that went on for a very long time um oh geez okay um if you have any questions in the comments of this video i don't know if i want to make it private i just thought it would you know to this would be the quickest way to uh connect with everybody and just to say that we're okay um because i know this is gonna be hitting the news and uh 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 in sendai and 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 do it be safe everybody and everybody in the world when you go through an earthquake like this you 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 like 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 gonna finish editing this video i don't know if i'm gonna be able to upload it tonight um but uh probably tomorrow night yeah all right 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 the discord server um but until then see you tomorrow maybe god this is just frightening to see back just the sounds you know what i can't i can't lift through this the sound is what scares me more than the movements just everything sound 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 in you're not in a tent you're in an apartment building and it's not as safe maybe i don't know i i shouldn't say blair witch project it's after midnight i think if you say it three times i don't i don't want to think about it all right everybody just stay safe good night um i'll do my best to get to sleep if i can i'll be on discord maybe i don't know i don't know back back to editing back to editing in the snow you

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

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Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, travel, earthquake, shake, Footage

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Length: 12min 57sec (777 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2022