Hooray! Just experienced my first earthquake! What fun. I think it was perhaps only a 1 or 2 on the Richter scale, but it lasted for about a minute. At first I though one of the trains was going by or my neighbor was moving a heavy piece of furniture, but when it began to shake more I knew it was an earthquake. I did what I learned at the disaster preparedness center and got under my desk until it subsided. There goes another thing off my 'while in Japan' to-do list.

Edit: According to several sources found through Google news, the earthquake was a 5.1 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located north of Tokyo.