I'm in Tokyo, west side (Setagaya-ku) That was by far and away the biggest shake I have felt and I have been here since '92.
The house shook for a long time - went to get the front door open and could hear things falling and crashing down inside the house. My car in it's parking stall looked look it was going to hop/slide into the road it was shaking so much.
The phone and cellular networks are mostly down, the gas is off but we have power.
The train system is stopped and a very large number of people are trying to walk home from central Tokyo. There are huge/massive traffic jams all over the city.
They are setting up shelters near the train stations for all the people that cant get home.
Tokyo is about 400km south of the quake area and it still shook really hard.
The TV coverage here looks like something out of a hollywood disaster movie.
The construction codes in Japan are fairly good so there were a lot less collapsed buildings than you might expect but the Tsunami surge was truly devastating and swept very far in-land.
There have been tremors and aftershocks over the past 5 hours but have been decreasing in intensity and length.
I'm expecting to be woken in the middle of the night by another big tremor.
Tokyo is mostly ok = though a few people have died from falling objects and heart attacks.
For those in Hawaii - it might be wise to move away from the beach/oceanside for the next 6 hours or so.
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