> > 
> > There was a quake of a similar size in Toyohashi in '97 or '98.
> > 
> > I was living near Lake Hamana on land that my neighbours called "tofu
> > floating on water."
> > 
> > Maybe Declan remembers that one. It rocked through Aichi and Shizuoka.
> 
> Wasn't that one in '96 ? I don't think it reached 7 though?

You are right.

There were 5.8 quakes in 1996 and 1997. 

I was still in England for this one
http://www.jishin.go.jp/main/chousa/97mar3/p02.htm

This is the one I felt
http://www.jishin.go.jp/main/chousa/97mar3/p01.htm

My tofu house made it feel much bigger.

Mukade