Tokyo to Tackle Up-Coming Megaquake
The Tokyoites are aware that a huge earthquake is afoot to assault their home city any time now - so they are told and warned against.
The Kanto Region, of which Tokyo is a part, was hit by a major earthquake of a magnitude of 7.9. in 1923. A mammoth town of houses built of paper and mud then, Tokyo was totally devastated, and the neighboring prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and the rest of the Kanto Region were severely damaged.
The memories of the great earthquake weigh heavy in the minds of the elders and on younger generations who inherited them. Then the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 11, 2011, renewed their awareness of natural calamities.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has just issued a quake-guidebook "Tokyo Bousai (Let's Get Prepared)", in which the authorities illustrate in detail how to survive a megaquake in a megapolis like Tokyo. Each household will receive a copy each starting September 1 and the book is already put on the Web for everybody to read.
Repercussions are favorable as it contains enlightening information even for those living outside the would-be disaster areas.
The booklet is voluminous for its size with 300 pages of vital data that should come in handy in emergency, full of manga and illustrations.
Just to release tension, our readers might learn of how catfish has always been trusted in Japan to foretell an approaching earthquake. Visit Kashima Shrine for a talisman to guard yourself against an earthquake. A Prof. Hatai Shinkishi attempted to shed scientific light on the "hearsay". In his report, Prof. Hatai found catfish to be extremely sensitive to the sound of an object striking glass and confirmed that catfish is high vulnerable to V-shape changes in earth-current. Well ?
