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Originally Posted by gjm120
I grew up in SC and now live in Texas and felt the same way until I went thru the big one in Japan in Mar 2011. I was on the Narita Express to leave Tokyo when it hit. The train stopped and didn't move for nearly 17 hours. I thought the train was going to shake off the track. And there were about 40 aftershocks over 6.0 - enough to make you wonder what was coming next.
Funny part of the story - when we finally got to Narita airport they refunded a big portion of the ticket price because the train was delayed.  |
That was definitely a big one.
"On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake," among other names."
Number of deaths were 19,759, 6,242 injured, and 2,553 people missing as of 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T...ke_and_tsunami