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Witness location : Yotsukaidō (Japan) (16 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Pretty strong

Witness location : Narashino (Japan) (17 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

Strong shake. Vibration first with up and down motion. Then left to right swaying. Enormous and quite lasted a minute.

Witness location : Narashino (Japan) (19 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 31 min

揺れが長かった

Witness location : Narashino (Japan) (19 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

この地震があったから、さっきの地震を受け入れるのに時間がかからなかった

Witness location : Urayasu (Japan) (23 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

Strong shaking near Tokyo Bay.

Witness location : Urayasu (Japan) (23 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Strong shaking near north part of Tokyo Bay.

Witness location : (Japan) (26 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 772 min

Strong but short shake at about 20km East of the epicenter = Shindo was.  5minus according to the Japanese scale ~ announcement of the shake by portable telephone, pre-alert on tv and radio channels as well as outside city loud-speakers

Witness location : Urayasu (Japan) (27 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

最初は揺れが弱かったが、5秒程かけて強くなった。10秒以上は強く揺れ続け、その後は少しずつ弱くなっていった。

Witness location : (Japan) (28 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

本当に強かったです。

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (31 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

It’s a shaker, bigger than the usual. ~in central Tokyo on the 45th floor.

Witness location : Urayasu (Japan) (32 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 32 min

There was no time for the alarm to sound, and the tremendous horizontal shaking continued for about 10 seconds.

Witness location : Urayasu (Japan) (32 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Small at first then a huge jolt lasted 4. Seconds

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (32 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 6 min

Mobiliário e vidraças avançaram durante menos de 1 minuto.

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (33 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

Strong, scary shake for 5 min.

Witness location : (Japan) (33 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Strong shake. Some things fell off from a drawer tall furniture.

Witness location : Matsudo (Japan) (33 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 8 min

Shook quite hard for a second.

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (34 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

On the 23rd floor of ANA Tokyo felt side to side movements

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (34 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

Strong and long Minato ku

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (36 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 7 min

That was very strong, I was led to jump under my kitchen table. Lucky it seems over for now...

Witness location : Misato (Japan) (36 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 8 min

I felt an earthquake in Matsudo, Chiba

Witness location : (Japan) (37 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 81 min

A lot of things felt from shelves and so on

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (39 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

Scary but zero damage  Very big shake initially

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (39 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Little shaking for a couple of moments, then a big shock for about 10 seconds. No falling furniture, electricity & water supply OK right at the moment in central Tokyo.The cellphones alarm of emergency was a little bit late.

Witness location : Tokyo (Japan) (39 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Was a big one in a while. Duration extended to 10 to 20 sec

Witness location : Kawaguchi (Japan) (39 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 6 min

Very strong shakes., 30 sec, 2nd floor, Akita-Ku, Tokyo

Witness location : Yokohama (Japan) (40 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 134 min

On 51st floor of building, violent initial shake before the building dampened things down

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (41 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 5 min

On A ship at anchor in vicinity of Yokosuka. The ship shook for 2 minutes.

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (41 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

On ship anchored in vicinity of Yokosuka, and the ship shock for about two minutes.

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (44 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Lots of shaking over quickly

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (44 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 13 min

First floor ..loud rumbles lots of shaking but nothing fell over

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (44 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 6 min

scary!!

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (44 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Very quick but strong

Witness location : (Japan) (45 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

Mild shaking but my kid was dancing

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (45 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 711 min

Rumbling shake felt, not swaying or horizontal thrusting.

Witness location : Komae (Japan) (45 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

Long and strong. House was shaking and alarm went off.

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (46 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Biggest quake I have felt for several years.

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (46 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Pretty good shaking. Had a couple things fall.

Witness location : Yokosuka (Japan) (47 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Strong shaking!!!

Witness location : Yokohama (Japan) (48 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 55 min

Really like and shaky one, pretty bad one. Had to duck under the table during a meeting with the camera on, pretty funny experience ;)

Witness location : Musashino (Japan) (49 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Strong shake but not long.

Witness location : Musashino (Japan) (49 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Gentle shake.

Witness location : Zushi (Japan) (51 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

10-15 sec of serious shake in Zushi. Went outside the house directly when it started

Witness location : Musashino (Japan) (51 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

強い

Witness location : Chōfu (Japan) (52 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

the shaking continued a minute, and a few things fell from shelves. It may be strong quake since 2005, I think.

Witness location : Sakura (Japan) (54 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 126 min

I was on an elevated train platform at the time. Signboards were rattling and swaying a lot. Nothing seems to have fallen over at home. All trains were cancelled.

Witness location : Fuchū (Japan) (54 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

windows of my house shook and made noise.

Witness location : (Japan) (54 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 13 min

There was intense shaking and some pictures fell off the wall. It definitely was longer that 30 minutes. The entire house was shaking rigorously.

Witness location : (Japan) (54 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 7 min

Doors swinging and objects rattling and shaking.

Witness location : (Japan) (55 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

It shook strongly for at least 30 seconds

Witness location : Fujisawa (Japan) (55 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 5 min

Strong shaking in Fujisawa

Witness location : Machida (Japan) (57 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 6 min

Kind of violent

Witness location : Zama (Japan) (61 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 5 min

Short, but somewhat intense. No damage, but a few small things knocked over

Witness location : Higashiyamato (Japan) (65 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

fuerte movimiento desde Tokorozawa

Witness location : Kamisu (Japan) (66 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

Strong for a short period, but soft shaking for a while afterwards

Witness location : Akishima (Japan) (68 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1 min

Big one

Witness location : Akishima (Japan) (68 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Fussa tokyo japan

Witness location : Fussa (Japan) (71 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

Glasses and decorations were really rattling. Thought they were going to fall off the shelves.

Witness location : (Japan) (72 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 13 min

This was a big earthquake that I haven't in a long time here in tokyo. I live in a tower building in the 8th floor and everything was shaking bad. When there are earthquakes in north Japan I feel those too but not as bad as this one.

Witness location : Ōta (Japan) (106 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 65 min

It started shaking rather hard a moment after the alarm on the phone and lasted for about 20 seconds. Ota, Gunma.

Witness location : Kiryū (Japan) (118 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 5 min

Mild shaking for about 5-8 seconds. We got the alert on our phones about 4 seconds before we felt it.

Witness location : Ashiya (Japan) (447 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 951 min

Slight swaying and creaking of 30 storey apartment building outside Osaka