Dumaguetenos living in Tokyo, Japan, say they are okay although they feel the tremors brought about by aftershocks from time to time.
Carla Maxino-Koseki, sister of Court of Appeals Associate Justice Pamela Ann Maxino, told this writer through Facebook that she was heading home in a subway train when the earthquake struck.{{more}}
The magnitude 8.4 quakeíƒ¢í¢”š¬í¢”ž¢s epicenter was off shore in the east coast of Honshu, some 243 miles northeast of Tokyo, where the tremors caused people to run out of swaying buildings.
After the quake, the trains stopped running and she had to walk back to her office at the 9th floor of the Philippine National Bank Tokyo to await the resumption of the train service.
Maxino-Koseki said she soon received text messages from her son and daughter assuring her that they were safe.
She said this was the first major earthquake that she experienced in her 27 years of living in Japan. But it was more than that. Television news reports say it was the strongest quake to hit Japan since 1900.
She said the lessons learned from an earthquake are: do not panic, have some canned cookies, emergency goods or supplies, bottled water and extra batteries for mobile phones. íƒ¢í¢”š¬í…“If possible, always carry a charger,íƒ¢í¢”š¬í‚ she wrote.
Another Dumagueteno now living in Japan, Ed Macavinta, said earthquakes are part of everyday life in Japan. íƒ¢í¢”š¬í…“But this time, it is devastating and huge! Let’s continue praying for everybody’s safety.íƒ¢í¢”š¬í‚
There are over 200,000 Filipinos living in Japan, mostly in the Tokyo and Osaka areas.
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