There were things in the fog reaching out fingers to pluck at her skirt, to drag her down into the uneasy quaking earth on which she stood, silent, relentless, spectral hands.
Still, power was knocked out from many residents, roads were ripped apart, buildings were damaged, and more than a thousand aftershocks of magnitude 1.5 or greater have struck since Friday's quake.
The quake registered at 4: 46 am with the epicenter in Ibaraki prefecture about 130 kilometers northeast of Tokyo with a focus 40 kilometers underground, the meteorological agency said.
Then the compression itself is accompanied by very powerful shocks such as those that seismographs recorded, therefore, approximately 25% of moon quakes as a result of cooling of the lunar subsurface.
The ideal to be aimed at was to devise an instrument that could record with a pen on paper, the movements of the ground or of the table as the quake passed by.