From the 39th floor of a new office building in downtown Tokyo, Appirio cloud computing’s director of Japanese operations Jason Park shared with TechNewsWorld his harrowing, moment-by-moment account of Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake, a mere 150 miles away from the temblor epicenter. Park and colleagues “saw other high-rise offices and apartments visibly shaking,” he wrote. “It was hard to stand without losing my balance.” The earthquake started small — “with mild tremors, but this happens every few months,” he recalled. “We didn’t think anything of it until the tremors didn’t stop.”
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Jittery Notes From Tokyo - One IT Manager's Earthquake Experience
Posted by: Mike Martin March 11, 2011 03:04 PMFrom the 39th floor of a new office building in downtown Tokyo, Appirio cloud computing’s director of Japanese operations Jason Park shared with TechNewsWorld his harrowing, moment-by-moment account of Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake, a mere 150 miles away from the temblor epicenter. Park and colleagues “saw other high-rise offices and apartments visibly shaking,” he wrote. “It was hard to stand without losing my balance.” The earthquake started small — “with mild tremors, but this happens every few months,” he recalled. “We didn’t think anything of it until the tremors didn’t stop.”