what do you see?

We got woken up at around 1am this morning by an earthquake (there was a smaller one on Saturday during work too)...nothing happened for us except a picture falling ofthe TV (it's our measure of a larger-sized quake!). Now winter's over, more quakes seem to happen, it doesn't make any sense but it always seems to be that way!

FROM JAPANTODAY.COM:

TOKYO -Three people in Tokyo were injured early Monday morning in an earthquake that shook areas centering on Tokyo, Ibaraki and Saitama prefectures with an estimated magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Tokyo Fire Department said.

The quake, which struck at around 12:57 a.m., registered 4 on the Japanese intensity scale of 7 in Tokyo's Koto Ward, the cities of Iwai and Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, and the towns of Miyashiro and Shiraoka in Saitama Prefecture. No tsunami warnings were issued.

In Tokyo, a 12-year-old junior high school student fell off his bed and broke his right arm, and two other people were injured, the fire department said.

An earthquake with an intensity of 4 is strong enough to awaken most sleeping people but insufficient to cause structural damage to buildings, according to the meteorological agency.

The quake was also felt in Chiba, Gunma, Kawagawa, Miyagi, Fukushima, Niigata, Shizuoka, Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures.

Government seismologists traced the epicenter to about 60 kilometers underground in northwestern Chiba. (Kyodo News)