Japan update
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I’m posting this on Posterous, since it exceeds Facebook’s status field.
About 9:30am this morning. We are still feeling the aftershocks here, but these are what Japan experience on a fairly normal business so it’s not impacting anything. Trains are running again and Tokyo is returning to normal. Those in the north need lots of help and support.
This is the USGS earthquake page: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
Pretty much all the quakes in the high 4.x I can feel in Tokyo, so that gives some idea of how often we still feel it here. There have been about 7 instances since I woke up this morning (past 45 minutes or so). It’s normally a big less frequently. At least in Tokyo these aren’t dangerous, but it could cause problems for those closer to the epicenter, especially with buildings already weakened. I probably won’t write much more about the aftershocks unless something more out of the ordinary happens. We’ll probably be feeling them for a quite a while yet.
As far as the Nuclear reactor, I haven’t kept on news of it really closely, but western news seems to be sensationalizing it more than it deserves. It sounds like they are pumping it with sea water now and it’s under control, although they’ll probably have to decommission it.
