Zipplet Tech's video: Living in Japan: Earthquake safety - Be prepared

This time, I talk about earthquakes and give advice on how you can prepare yourself. ---- Additional info ---- What does it look like if an EEW + Tsunami warning occurs while watching TV? Take a look at this video captured from NHK BS 1, showing an EEW + Tsunami warning interrupting a TV show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMNu8Y1jIlU The video is post March 2011, the system was upgraded a little. Look at how the system constantly updates itself with more information as it flows in, in realtime (some of it is shown in Japanese at the top of the screen, automatically). A lot of money goes into the technology behind this system and it saves many lives. All NHK presenters no matter the programme are trained to deal with an EEW (like the lady in the video above did) until a news presenter can take over, which you also see occur in the video when the display transitions to a camera showing shaking outside. You can read more about the system in English from JMA who run the system here: http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/eew.html The initial chimes and warning sound are computer generated and do not wake up the TV. Some newer TVs have a setting enabled by default that makes them add an additional annoying sound/popup on the screen as well as that one, at the same time. (mine has it) You can hear the bleeping sound (a data stream) just as the Tsunami warning appears later on in the video, which is a signal to wake up older TVs. Newer ones watch a digital stream to wake up. The audible data stream is also broadcast over radio, and all radios that support digital tuning (rather than an analog dial) and are in standby also turn themselves on when they receive it. The 1-seg TV system I mentioned is digital and more information is available here in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg Another video that might be of interest: In Japan, there is a 24/7 continuous weather channel (yes, the idea is... weird but it exists). This is what happened during March 2011 while they were broadcasting - you can see the data streaming in and updating live as computers analyse it - this is fully subtitled in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C_rOVIbbvc