Meanwhile, in Japan, a severe situation was taking place devasting the country even more. Their Shindo scale which is used in measuring earthquakes by their seismic intensity instead of magnitude was recording yet severe earthquakes that were already in the scary trend.
It was already almost over twenty-four hours since it started. Though it was already documented that as many as 1,500 earthquakes are recorded yearly and magnitude 4 and 6 are not uncommon at all.
From different parts of the country, minor tremors occur almost daily in one part of the country or the another causing some slight shaking of buildings.
The Shindo scale is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the U.S. or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter as the Richter scale does.