It was a slight, imperceptible tremor, but I remember how this earthquake shook me.

That tingling sensation, like something powerful held me down, was the same as in 2011.

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I turned on the TV in the living room, and the announcer was yelling evacuation in a horrible voice -- She was out of breath

In contrast, no concrete damage information has been received.

At this point, only two different videos are being repeated repeatedly.

If you think about it, if the infrastructure in the affected area is destroyed, naturally, no information can be received from seismographs or tsunami gauges.

So, of course, they can't even provide information on social networking sites.

"Real-time damage is not communicated."

First, if the carriers (wire/wireless lines) are destroyed, how can local governments' evacuation advisories and even earthquake early warnings be delivered?

If the power goes out, the TV goes out. If the TV goes out, you don't know what's happening around you.

(I looked it up, and that is true).

I am again surprised by the reality that the last resort is the only information available, which is "away" by human voice.

The Ebata family keeps two battery-powered radios on hand.

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It brings back bad memories.

When the Tohoku earthquake (March 11, 2011), nuclear power plants were successfully "reactor scram."

With this result, Japan's nuclear power plants should have been able to boast of their "safety" to the world.

"The "scram" automatically activated the nuclear power plants in Japan, and the fission reactions were stopped. This might have been a complete victory for nuclear power control in the earthquake-prone country of Japan."

However, a nuclear power plant does not "completely shut down" with a scram alone -- the reactor must continue to cool after the scram.

However, the earthquake's tsunami wiped out the cooling system's batteries, causing the reactor to melt down and the containment vessel to explode.

I'm worried we won't have a 'submerged power supply' again."