Japanese residents talk about the quake and the aftermath

Heiroyoshi Takeda, employee at the Kyoto Imperial palace, was in Tokyo Friday when the earthquake hit.

He described about 5 minutes of shaking, and said that the lamps overhead swayed back and forth.

He said no one could stand so everyone had to duck down and crawl to get cover. It was a very scary experience, according to Takeda.

Christy Kwan is a student in Japan and said transportation is still down in much of Japan.

Kwan said her friend, a fellow student from Hong Kong, is stuck in the Tochigi prefecture, located between Tokyo and Sendai because many transportation systems are still down.

She said she keeps in touch via phone because the Internet is poor, and that the trains aren’t running so her friend is basically stranded.

She thinks the friend will be stuck there for another one to two weeks before all the problems are worked out.