Earthquake

We experienced our first authentic Japanese earthquake this morning. It was quite a small one. We both woke up but we weren't even sure that it was an earthquake until we asked around and then checked the internet, as the house shakes that much when a truck drives by or the wind blows. The Japanese service that tracks such things says that it was a 1 on the Richter Scale in our location, and a 4 at the epicenter a hundred miles south of us. It was very much a non-event for the locals but a little exciting for us.