Thursday, April 21, 2011

4月21日(shigatsu nijyuichi nichi): April 21

It was 10:37 PM. We just had another big earthquake. Shingenchi(震源地), the seismic center was east off Chiba (千葉) prefecture, and shingen no fukasa(震源の深さ), its depth was 50 km. Magnitude was 6. In the Japanese scale it was shindo go jyaku (震度5弱), five lower.
Regarding the seismic intensity, please refer to the following page.

http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/inttable.html

It was rather cold today.

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