in article chhsf7$k19$1@t-nwall01.odn.ne.jp, anko eater at anko@eater.com
wrote on 9/6/04 11:30 PM:

> 
> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BD61B3EB.248E7%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> 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.
> 
> Now, it convinces me that you were surely in Gufu. The earthquakes happened
> yesterday were both long, slow but widely shaking like you are on a big ship
> cruising in a typhoon weather. Every person I know was so scared and they
> were both unusual, really eerie earthquakes even for the most of the
> Japanese grown up here who are supposed to be used to it.

You were right-on about the earthquake feeling different, which made it
spooky.