Mega Quake Advisory 😔 (Patreon)

Hey hey, everyone 👋

Wow. Everyone is losing their mind. In a oddly low key kind of way.

I live in Shizuoka Prefecture and have been hearing the drumbeat of the mega Tokai Earthquake and mega Nankai Trough Earthquake from early on. We have disaster preparedness drills several times a year. We get continually updated 'hazard maps' that show the dangerous areas of the city. I used to do a radio show to prepare and inform foreign residents what to do before and when it finally hit.

So we just had an earthquake off the coast of Kyushu. Notice that they're calling the 7.1 quake a tremor. I didn't feel it, but that got my attention.

So it seems these catastrophic quakes have happened like clockwork (more or less) every 90 to 200 years. The last one was 1946. So we've just been told "any day now" for the past thirty years. But you kind of get used to it.

Then something changed. With this most recent quake all of the sudden the scientists and earthquakeologists came out and started acting all nervous and said that it might just be a predecessor for one of those mega quakes. Two days before the huge Tohoku Earthquake hit in 2011 (magnitude 9), there was a level 7 one. Just like now.

The below shows an earthquake in 1854 where the one on the right (my area) spurred the one of the left only thirty two hours after it happened. And I guess this happens a lot with these plates through history. One happens, triggers the other.

Interesting fact: Right around Mount Fuji is the intersection of three tectonic plates with the Pacific Plate doing its own thing nearby. Nudge. Nudge.

Anyway, all over the news they came out and issued an Earthquake Watch for the Mega Nanakai Trough Quake which is bad in and of itself, but it could possibly set off the Tokai Quake, too. They're saying there's a 70% to 80% chance of a quake...any day now. This has never been done before...an earthquake watch!Cue a very strange panic in the air.

We realized we didn't have proper Bug Out Bags or bottled water or lighters or flashlights or a first aide kit for that matter, so the day after the quake, early, we went to the home center to pick up some things. I thought it opened at 9:00 so we got there a little after 9:00, but already there were people in the parking lot. Someone new would pull up, go check the automatic doors, check their watch, return to their car.The store (Jumbo Encho) actually opened at 9:30 but at about 9:15 I watch a guy go up to the doors and just push them open and go in. That set everyone else off and one by one they got out of their cars and hurried inside. We waited for a few minutes until the doors actually opened on their own. It was still early, but they must have realized they weren't keeping people out, might as well open.

Here's a few seconds of buying water. https://youtu.be/kjsMhYa4YnUThe water sold out probably within a half hour and that was after I watched them bring in a bunch from the back, several times. After we got home, I got a message from a friend who said she just went out and she couldn't find any bottle water or tea anywhere in town. She said she already had a lot but was just stocking up on more. We did get some, so we were fine.

Here's the aisle of water and other bottled drinks at the supermarket I usually go to a couple hours after opening.

Then last night I felt an earthquake but the epicenter was totally unrelated (up in Kanagawa). Curious. Then this morning I saw a 7.-something in the Okhotsk Sea above Hokkaido, close to where my son is living. I called but they didn't feel anything. Seems on land it was only a 3 or so.

Now I've got friends messaging and cancelling lunch dates (all the way into September) because they want to stay home, just in case. It's just a strange vibe all around. Waiting for something bad to happen.

In a way there is only so much you can do. Be prepared, make sure bookcases and the like are secured to the wall, don't sleep under anything that can fall, things like that. There are little tricks you hear about like keep your ofuro full of water (to use if toilets aren't working later), keep shoes by your bed (if you need to get out and glass is on the floor), have saran wrap so you can put it over dishes when you eat for easier clean up, you don't waste water.

Here's my take.

In 2011, the morning of the Tohoku Earthquake, the crows near my house started acting really strangely, enough so that both me and my friends who were over at the house kept commenting on them. These days I've got a small crow family I'm getting chummy with. The mother (Sweet Pea) has been gone for a week or so (had me worried there!), but she showed up yesterday with Buddy Pa (the dad whom I'm in love with) and the three (goofball noisy) kids. The whole family sat out there and listened politely while I gave them some peanuts and went into an emotional and hopefully convincing plea, asking them to be so kind as to let me know if they feel anything weird impending. You come make a fuss, tap on my window (one of the babies has figured that trick out already) and there are a lot more peanuts where these came from. So, hopefully that will work. More crow videos coming soon. They are hilarious and I have loads.

Anyway, here's an interesting video about the history of the quakes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drn2xgITNeg

Everyone stay safe and well, XO,

terrie