Taiwanese tourist Johnny Wu was waiting for a bus home when the earthquake struck western Japan, describing people as “panicked” once the shaking started. “You can see all the snow from the the electric wire goes down, and also (the snow) from the roof fell down and all the cars are shaking. And so everybody was panicked at that time,” he told Reuters. But everything else was shaking,” he told Reuters. Chia said his friends were outside at the time of the earthquake, adding “my first instinct was also just to text them, to see if they’re OK. Definitely I was asking about the (possible) avalanches.”