Jishin! Jishin!

Another earthquale shook Japan this morning when I was at school.  Japan and Taiwan use a scale that measures the degree of shaking of earthquakes.  Earthquakes are measured in units of "shindo," which literally translates to "degree of shaking."  There are 7 units in the Shindo scale, 1 indicating a really weak quake and 7 being pretty severe.  Today's quake was only a 3 but I really felt it!  What's weird is that this morning I could sense that there was going to be an earthquake.  I had been thinking about places to go if an earthquake happened.  I told this to my students after the quake and they were shocked and jokingly called me "kami" (a god).