Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Brett Robson wrote:


> 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

30 seconds is a LONG time; the Kobe quake was about 35-40 seconds.

Mike