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you can. >> what floor are you on in the building where you are right now? >> okay, i'm on a low floor, so the way should be quite low. i'm in what's considered a small apartment building. there's about -- there's four stories to it. i am on the first floor, so actually the second story, the first floor above the ground. and so the sway would have been a lot more three stories higher. it's -- because it's a smaller building and it was built in the '80s, it sort of squats -- it was built to very high construction standards. you don't rent an apartment in tokyo without knowing about the construction standards. that might, you know, everyone is cost conscious, so you might just kind of rent something that still might be a little bit iffy and just hope that the worst doesn't strike. that's common, all right. but a lot of people also would want something that is better built, just in case a tragedy, you know, just in case there's a major earthquake. >> we've spoken with experts, kenneth, and there have been dozens and dozens of these aftershocks since the magnitude

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