On Sun Jun 15  9:47 , 'Joe Petrow' <joepetrow@gmail.com> sent:
>>  Hyogo is pretty far away from the earthquake, though, isn't it? It would
>> have been difficult to feel and realize that it was an earthquake. I can
>> imagine what it's like in that area; my thoughts go out to the people th
at
>> have been affected tragically by the earthquake.
>
>In Tokyo, the high speed elevators in the Mori Building were stopped
>by the computer sensor systems.  So there was probably something to
>feel, if you were focused enough on feeling it.

From what I saw on the charts, some parts of Tokyo did experience intensity
 3
shockwaves, quite amazing, given the distance of the quake.

I remember being in a chinese restaurant with (I think) Stephen Lee at the 
time
of the Niigata earthquake, and everything shook quite a bit, but people rem
ained
calm. Little did we know how far away the real epicentre was until I got to
 a TV
later in the evening...