Earthquake zone

Living in Japan means living with expectations of feeling an earthquake any time day or night.
Our first earthquake happened when we were still living at the military hotel. It was a very strange feeling--I actually thought that Alex was kicking the side of the couch or something. Looking later at the Japanese Meteorological Agency website, it turned out to be a 2.0. A couple days later, we felt another one--at night. Robert didn't even feel that one, but I actually woke up at 2 am. I think that one was around 2.5-3 in magnitude.

I guess, it's better to have these small earthquakes all the time. When they are infrequent, that's when we should expect trouble.

Here is that website that you can check out just for fun. If you click on Previous Information above the map, it will show you earthquakes in the past couple days--you'll seehow often they happen.
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/

We are in the very North East corner of the main island.