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Japan Disaster Prevention Information

May 9, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

To help you understand the point of this post, I’ve recorded a little video of the view from my bedroom window. You’ll need to watch the video before I delve into the topic of “disaster prevention information” in Japan. My peaceful neighborhood in Japan If you can’t view the video, you can watch it here on YouTube. What was that and why should I care? What you just saw was, […]

Japan’s Earthquake Warning System

October 4, 2007January 3, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

Japan is prone to earthquakes and although most of them are small, they are quite common with announcements popping up on the TV screen alerting us to the most recent quakes. From time to time, a big one will come such as the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 or this year’s Noto earthquake. As frightening as these earthquakes were, neither compared to the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 which killed […]