24 July 08

We were shaken awake at 12.30am by a quake that turned out to be a 6+ up in Iwate prefecture. That's the second one in a month in the area we are going with Graham, Pam and Kate in September! Unlike last month this one was very deep though, so there was only mild structural damagea nd a few minor injuries. They use a different scale here, so I'm not sure what a 6+ in Japan equates to in Richter scale terms.