Japanese tsunami system focused on evacuating people

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on March 7 adopted a new tsunami warning system, focusing on evacuation advice appropriate for people instead of researching and providing parameters about those. the next wave.

According to the new warning system, during the first warning, given within three minutes of a magnitude 8 earthquake or more, the JMA will announce a tsunami with only two "High" or "Big" steps. to warn people about an emergency. The "Big" level refers to a tsunami with waves of more than 3m high, and a "High" level to refer to 1m high waves.

In the second warning, given within 15 minutes after an earthquake, the JMA will arrange the forecast of tsunami levels at more than 10m, 10m, 5m, 3m and 1m. These warnings will be based on the highest level of tsunami predictions, to avoid underestimation of risk.

The JMA suggests that people should "evacuate riverside or coastal areas immediately to go to safer places such as highlands or tsunami-evacuated places" for warnings. "High" or "Big" . JMA said that if the tsunami announcements said waves were 20cm high, people should "leave the coastal area immediately".

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The JMA also suggests that fishermen do not catch or go to the beach until the warnings are lifted. The agency will also use phrases like "tsunami with the magnitude of the East Japan earthquake that may come" to warn people.

The warning system came on the occasion of two years after the magnitude 9 earthquake on the northeastern coast of Japan, accompanied by tsunamis and a nuclear crisis, killing more than 15,000 people.

Regarding the victims of the double disaster, Japan National Police Agency on March 7 said that there are still 132 out of 15,811 victims (0.8%) in Iwate and Miyagi provinces. and Fukushima have not yet been identified. Police will continue to make efforts to identify these people by checking their DNA data or reporting their portraits on websites.

Elsewhere, the United Nations organized photoshoots of young children in the coastal city of Higashimatsushima in Japan, where most schools were destroyed in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami. Photos are on display at the United Nations headquarters in New York City (USA) until March 26 as part of an exhibition entitled "Road to school".

18 photographers have traveled to 13 countries around the world, following the students to school to record the images they must overcome the challenges of disaster, conflict, poverty and racism. .

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the transport company Veolia Transdev, co-sponsored the project, said that after the exhibition at the United Nations, the pictures would be brought to exhibition in France and hope to many other parts of the world, including Japan.