Earthquake

Just about 5 minutes ago, I was sitting at my desk when I started to feel like someone was pulling on the back of my chair or something. I looked up and one of the office ladies calmly said "地震" ("Earthquake"). Sure enough, the ground started shaking more violently, although not quite enough to make anything fall or to even really displace anything. It lasted about a minute or so and afterwards, there were a few mild aftershocks. I ended up feeling a little dizzy but not much else. Afterwards, my boss turned on the tv and everyone watched them talking about the earthquake for about 5 minutes and then it was back to business as usual.

Update: I watched the news coverage on the tv during my lunch break. Turns out that the earthquake registered a 4 on the Richter scale elsewhere in Aomori and as high as 6 in other parts of Japan. They had footage of people cleaning up supermarkets where displays of bottles had fallen over and stuff like that. CNN is currently reporting that the magnitude was closer to 7.