in article newscache$z7dk3i$ojg$1@news01d.so-net.ne.jp, Dave at
dgreco@bg9.so-net.ne.jp wrote on 9/5/04 7:31 PM:

> That was a pretty strong one! I'm near the Nara Higashiosaka border and it
> shook us for about 20-30 seconds and slowly got stronger and fairly quickly
> dropped off in strength. Everyone ok out there??

Unfortunately, I felt both. For some reason, it was more scary than usually.
I have experienced a variety of earthquakes in my life, both in Japan and in
California (including in San Francisco and in LA), but this one felt
different, for some reason.