Brett Robson wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:19:45 +0900, The  ...
> >
> >So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth like a
> >ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill. Bleah.
> >
>
> I was in a guitar shop with a friend in ochanomizu on the 2nd floor of an old
> building. The guitars where swinging like the pendulum in a grand father clock.
> The staff were joking and pretending to hide under a tiny table. I learnt the
> term 'funeniyoi', sea sick.
>
> ---
> "2 out of 3 ain't bad" - Meat Loaf
> "1 out 2^64 is a real bitch" - Original

I once felt a tremor of Japanese scale 4 or 5 (M 7.2 or 7.3 in Shimane where some
structures and cliff faces actually collapsed), from eight floors up. That
(perceived) only went on about 30 seconds, though. Witnesses outside said people
fell down on the street, and the buildings were swaying.

About a year later, there was a similar tremor, and I could see it from street
level. Tall buildings and suspended banners, etc. certainly did seem to sway.