When I told people I was moving to Japan, one of the first things they said was "watch out for earthquakes!" Japan, as a whole, experiences earthquakes quite regularly, but the majority of them tend to go undetected by people going about their daily lives. I've been in several where I only felt them because I was lying in bed reading, and even then I had to check the earthquake radar to be sure I actually felt something, it was so small. Major earthquakes do happen, and they can be a big deal, but Japanese people are used to them and have well-established procedures for them. It also depends on where you are in Japan; Tokyo gets earthquakes far more often than where I am in northern Tohoku, since my prefecture is surrounded by mountains that act like natural shock absorbers. There has even been a couple that my friends have felt in Hachinohe, which is just on the other side of the mountains, and we didn't feel a thing!
(But yes, I do have an earthquake kit)
We did have a large typhoon recently, (Typhoon 10, or I think the American news was calling it something weird like Lionrock? Lionheart? Everyone here was just calling it Typhoon 10) and that knocked some small branches off, but that's about it for natural disasters in this area as of late.
(the title is a dumb pun on the Spanish word terremoto which is earthquake, I'm sorry)
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