Taiwanese tourists filming the 7.5 earthquake in Japan yesterday. At least 30 people were injured, and thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes. The quake occurred at 23:15 (14:15 GMT) at a depth of 50 km (31 mi), about 80 km off the coast of the Aomori region.



    by MilesLongthe3rd

    38 Comments

    1. This is what is looks like when you have trust in the building’s structure. Only in Japan. 

    2. Honestly only 30 people injured and no deaths really speaks to how well the earthquake adaptive engineering works. Pretty impressive overall. I hope everyone who was injured recovers!

    3. Dude was taking advantage of the distraction to eat more than his fair share of those strawberries

    4. Ooooo so thats why i always heard squeeking from my parents bedroom must of been nightly earthquakes

    5. Anyone watch the TV show Shogun on FX? The part where the white guy is talking to the Japanese lady and they’re standing near a cliff and a small earthquake happens. He freaks out asking what it was and she calmy says and earthquake and he says “A what?!”. It makes me laugh every time. Cause like duh, of course a guy from Portugal in that time probably wouldn’t know about earthquakes.

    6. always hard to capture an earthquake with smart phones while inside a building. the image stabilization “corrects” it.

    7. fondledbydolphins on

      Me: Doesn’t read title.

      What’s going on here?

      *Sees something moving on shelf* Oh shit that’s a rat.

      There’s rats everywhere in this apartment.

      How are these people so calm?

      Wait, where are the rats?

      Are they on a boat?…

      Oh.

    8. If this happened in India, there would be at least hundreds of people dead and we’d all forget about the tragedy in a week because by that time there’d be news of some bridge collapsing, a flash flood or a young child being assaulted by an old man.

    9. Either the building holds or it doesn’t. however it turns out you might as well fill your stomach!

    10. Man i was in Tokyo during a 5.6 earthquake and we were terrified. Never experienced it before and it was at 4am in the night when the phone screemed „catastrophe alert“ and suddenly everything started shaking… we were scared to go sleep again that night

    11. Wouldn’t it be best to quickly evacuate even though houses in Japan are probably the best in terms of earthquake-proofing?

    12. Purple-Frame-6882 on

      I was brushing my hair at the time; I live far from the epicenter, but I could feel it. The closet doors, curtains, and towels started shaking; it lasted almost a minute. I was already preparing to run outside if it got any stronger😅

    13. GullibleSherbert6 on

      Isn’t it crazy how instead of looking for safety the first response is widely pulling out your phone and filming. I miss the time before phones..

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