Ryan MacDonald, Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture
I am an English teacher in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture (Japonya'da) il, it is very close to the nuclear plant.
Myself and three friends fled from kaçmak the city on Saturday night at one in the morning, to get further daha ileri from the reactor. We are now staying with a friend of a friend in Kitakata city.
The official resmi line bilgi is that there is no danger of radiation exposure maruz kalma, but we have been hearing conflicting tutarsız things from unofficial sources kaynak and we didn't want to take the risk riske girmek.
Daily life was also becoming olmak difficult in Koriyama - we had no water or gas, there was a risky riskli power strike patlama, and the shops were running out of tükenme food.
Here in Kitakata there is very little damage zarar from the earthquake, but there are long queues sıra in shops and many things,including dahil petrol, are being rationed karne ile vermek. Still, we are very happy to have hot food and showers duş again!
There was more damage in Koriyama - a sushi restaurant collapsed çökmek, my apartment shook, and the road split yarılmak.
Robert Murphy in Fukushima City
We are some yaklaşık olarak 50 miles west of the nuclear power plant tesis, the other side of a tricky dolambaçlı mountain range dağ sırası.
We've not been told to evacuate boşaltmak here. I don't think it would be easy because transport has been badly affected etkilemek by the disaster felaket.
We don't have a car and the roads would be congested tıklım tıklım. And anyway, where would we go? To the west there is a mountain range, to the north Sendai, to the east the power station and to the south Tokyo, but it has its own problems.
The mood ruh hali in the town is very good at the moment - calm and even hatta humorous komik.
People are resilient dirençli here, and used to alışkın earthquakes. But I have to say that this one, and the tsunami and nuclear incidents olay, have startled ürkütmek people far more çok daha fazla than usual olağan.
Alex Miyaji, Sano
I've just arrived back home in Sano, which was about 90km north of Tokyo.
Me and my brothers have just managed başarmak to get into contact with our mother Wendy, who is in an area called Shichigahama in the Miyagi district, which is close to the epicentre deprem merkezi of the earthquake.
There are other British expats gurbetçi with her, including an elderly ihtiyar couple çift who don't have anywhere else to go.
I was in Tokyo at the time tam of the quake - on my way back home, waiting for a bus. I saw the bus in front önünde of me starting to shake and I initially başlangıçta thought it was just the wind rüzgar. But it then got stronger and I saw surrounding çevre buildings shaking too so we rushed hücum etmek to the middle of the road in the open space.