There was a massive earthquake in Northern Japan (near Hokkaido) over the weekend. It was under the seabed and sparked tsunami warnings.
Just read this in the Mainichi Daily this morning : "The Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warnings even when only splashes are expected."
That is so true! They should stop doing that and as the article was reporting, the local residents who stay along the coast in Hokkaido don't even bother to move inland anymore.
What is even more amazing is that the last time this happened, about 2 months ago, the Agency predicted 2m waves. In the end, all we had were 20cm waves!! I wonder what accounted for this huge discrepancy. Also, the big question for me, how do they know that that 20cm wave is a tsunami wave and not an ordinary wave???
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- Heidi
- A mum of 2 kids who still thinks that she is 25. Works in Tokyo so that she has time off her kids and time to blog! She is originally from Singapore. She has been in Japan long enough for her English to be mangled already! Her huband is Japanese, as are her 2 sons. Although her elder son is starting to think that he is Spanish, after watching all those American DVDs for kids where it plays in both English and Spanish. He has been ending all meals with "de-li-sio-so"!
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