Earthquake 震度６＋/ Richter 7

My day started with an earthquake when I woke up to find everything in my small room is shaking.

According to the limited experience I gained so far, I would estimate it to be somewhere between shindo3 to shindo 4 .
I wasn't that scared because I thought it was one of the usual daily life shakes, rather I was thankful for it because it saved me from oversleeping since I have a lot of things to do.
But when I searched the net later on, I realized that it's not as simple as I thought.

In fact the earthquake center was near Iwate prefecture to the north and it measured shindo6+ (around Richter 7) there!
It was strong enough to make the shaking occur in Tokyo as well.

This picture shows the shaking intensity over the different regions of Japan
I always check this page after each earthquake, but I never saw the map this "colorful" before><

You can see the NHK news footage HERE.

I hope that you have noticed that in Japan the SHINDO(震度) scale is used which is different from the Richter one. More information HERE.

And to make this post more informative(or maybe thrilling (笑)) a big earthquake is expected to happen in the Toukai area..which is called the Toukai earthquake, since the last time a major earthquake hit this area was in 1854.

..Amazingly, I remembered that yesterday before I went to bed, I was wondering about the fact that no earthquake has occurred for a while.
Shouldn't think of this anymore! ^^;