I was on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills when the earthquake struck. You can get a sense of how much the tower was shaking from the curtains moving and the people screaming. The earthquake itself was scary, but the psychological fear of the tower collapsing etc was stronger.

Well after the earthquake stopped, the building continued to sway back and forth. We ended up waiting about 1 1/2hrs for the lifts to start up again.

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  1. Это видео подтверждает, что Японцы отличные инженеры и организованы в таких ситуациях👍

  2. 最初のでかい音たちが何の音なのか。森ビル折れてる?

  3. I don’t doubt that during this there was at least a few friendships that got created. people that close to a group of people is one way to suddenly start talking to someone and somehow ending up talking ever since that day

  4. there is always that one old lad with hands behind his back looking chill.

  5. Question. If you’re on an elevator when an earthquake hits, does it still move because up and down or does it stop even while traveling? In other words, does it lose power when an earthquake hits? Because when someone says to get off on the nearest floor if you’re inside, I wonder if that’s possible if the elevator can be stuck.

  6. This is when you find out how stunning and brave woman are. Here you see them running for the exits carrying their purses. Hollywood depicts all women as martial arts, kick-ass women who are CEO's of huge corporations who laugh in the face of danger and brush aside men as simps. Girl Power! …….laughable.

  7. what ppl say: stay calm, keep ur self away from windows, don’t panic and run around
    reality: EVERYONE PANIC AND RUN AROUND

  8. Omgg this was 9.0 bruhhh soo cool its amazing that the building were able to handle that i thought the magnitude was like 7.0 or less

  9. The sheer engineering of these types of building, the mind-bending numbers of how much weight is being moved, and yet it still holds and does exactly what it's meant to. Engineers are superheros

  10. I think that experience would put your off going up into any sort of high rise for the rest of your life.

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