On 13/03/11 07:01, Steinar Midtskogen wrote:
> My SEP seismometer (Lehman type) went off the scale for two hours
> during the Japan quake.  I'm 8200 km away.  I had a look at the
> instrument while this while going on and I'm pretty sure that I could
> see the weight moving, very slowly.  I approached it as slowly as I
> could and stopped a meter away from it so I wouldn't disturb it, and
> watched for a few minutes.  It seemed to move irregularly, not just
> swinging back and forth.
>
> Does this sound plausible or was I simply imagining this?

One day while waiting for my fish'n'chips I felt the wall swaying and saw 
movement of oil in the deep fryer from a magnitude 7.5 quake at 2000km.

Seeing physical movement from an 8.9 at 8200km seems feasible to me.

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