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Quake alert. You might have seen reports of an earthquake "in Northern Japan" - it was a pretty big one centred around Miyagi and Sendai - a swimming pool roof collapsed there apparently. It was felt "as far away as Tokyo" and also as far away as here in Sapporo. Although it was only about 3 on the Japanese scale (shindo) where we are, it was very long with a lot of sideways movement. To be honest, I didn't feel it personally as I was outside at the time, but sources who were in the apartment at the time said our laundry rack almost fell over...also, a dog started acting very weird outside about a minute before it hit.

There's news about the quake here on the Mainichi news site.