Well, the Tokyo cloud watching brigade can now lower the state of alert from Code Orange to Code Yellow. It is my belief that the Saturday quake in eastern China (see below) may have been the event that our local cloud formations were pointing at. Certainly the timing - the vertical cloud spotted in Ota-ku on Friday Nov. 25th suggested that an event was imminent within 24-48 hours - and the direction were in the ballpark; but of course the location was way off base.
Here is the news out of China:
BEIJING (CNN) -- At least 12 people were killed and 397 wounded, 20 seriously, Saturday when a 5.5-magnitude quake struck eastern China, according to Chinese officials and reports from state-run media.
The quake struck about 8:49 a.m. (7:49 p.m. Friday ET), according to China's Xinhua news agency and the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was on the Hubei-Jiangxi provincial border, about 15 miles west-southwest of the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi province -- home to 361,000 people.
There were conflicting reports on the number of fatalities. Xinhua reported 14 deaths, while China's seismological bureau reported 12.
In Jiujiang county, more than 8,000 homes collapsed and 29,000 were damaged, according to Xinhua. In Ruichang, more than 500 houses collapsed and 100,000 were damaged. (Updated 4:13 a.m.)
Hopefully I can sleep better now, but just to be on the safe side, I will open a new blog called www.naruhodo1.com/Quake
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