The earthquake on the new year’s day

[katriona_s]

About quarter past 4pm, I, mother sister and her husband were in the living room, enjoying the tea and some sweets in the relaxed mood. Then we noticed the suspended lampshades were waving, then the quiver. The earthquake. It’s not a big quake here but soon we found it was big enough around Kanazawa and Noto peninsula, to cause the tsunami. The TV reporter has kept warning the local people to evacuate as soon as possible for hours, for tsunami could come hours after the quake. We had tea time together, then supper - the new year’s day feast but kept the TV news program on. There were the fire, collapsed houses and damaged roads, flood caused by the waves etc in the damaged area. Around 5pm it’s got dark and nobody knows how bad the damages were though there seems to be many casualties, I’m afraid many are killed. I have just hoped this new year would be a peaceful one but it started with the natural disaster. This of course spoiled our joy of the new year and family gathering. I hope not many people were killed…

Comments

[coffeetime]

Oh NO. I had no idea - I avoided news yesterday. I will go read about it now. I hope it's not as bad as it seemed. :(

[katriona_s]

Unfortunately, it seems to be far worse than the first look. Now at noon of 1/2 they say that 24 dead was reported, but I'm sure far more people are dead in the collapsed buildings. How dreadful start of a new year...

[michaelboy]

I just read about it. Very bad news to start out the year.

[katriona_s]

Yes. I just hope many people would be rescued from the destroyed houses...

[vera_j]

I was worried. Our media informed about the quake immediately and I checked on Yokohama at once. I was relieved to see that you were not near the centre of the disaster. Still it must have been a hottible experience for you and your guests! I am sorry for the victims, of course...

[katriona_s]

Thank you very much. Fortunately we are quite OK, we just had a small quake and no more problems. But in those damaged area, things seem to be quite difficult. Sad.