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We want people to prepare for possible powerful earthquakes and tsunamis regardless of whether they are aftershocks or not.

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A Japan Meteorological Agency spokesperson. The agency has stopped using the term "aftershocks" for strong earthquakes occurring in areas around the focus of the March 2011 9.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country's northeast.

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Having experienced the Kumamoto quakes, a piece of advice: take an afternoon to prepare. Secure your TV and furniture. Go to Daiso and prepare a bug-out bag. Think about where you'll go when the electricity is out and the ground covered with rubble so you can meet loved ones there. Maybe get a tent (I had three, much to the relief of my neighbors). It doesn't take a whole lot of time, but you'll be happy to have done so beforehand - after is a bit too late.

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Excellent point @Laguna 6:45a. Do you have a list for a “Bug-Out Bag” and what‘s needed for Each person for 3-7 days?

Plus, it would be nice to know if there is an website in a variety of languages so the working ‘residents’ here from other countries are not ‘*left out of the supply chain and rations**when disaster eventually WILL *hit.

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Thanks @zichi 10:09am for Your practical advice. Yet, as a channel to and from the populace, the onus is still on the media here to appropriately amend ANY articles regarding important quotes, news, information and social issues with relevant PSA information. If the media, in tandem with the government, want the ‘fear and attention’ from such BOLD type headlines and quotes, then they should also be prepared and provide relevant PSA information to aid people as well.

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Being from California, living and dealing with earthquakes is just a part of life, they average about 500-1000 a week, but most of these you wouldn't even know it, but it's evident all around California along the walls, streets and roads where you will see constant hairline fissures, as far as the larger ones are concerned, if you live in California, you always have in the back of your mind when is the big one coming? My parents always taught us how to prepare and what to prepare for in the event something big should tragically occur and for the life of me living half of the year in this country why the Japanese don't properly prepare for such an event? The Island is prone to some very large and seismic earthquakes as many of us have witnessed that have been living here over the last 20 years.

Our neighbors are shocked that we have a pair of clothes to change (always in the trunk of my car)

More than enough water and I built a well a few years ago (just in case)

Canned food, rechargeable batteries, solar powered phone cases and your typical emergency outdoor survival kits. Sad I don't have a single neighbor that has taken preliminary precautions should a big one comes, people here rely on the government way too much to help feed, rescue them or provide shelter and that is a scary thing, as many of you know I don't put a lot of faith into the government, I think every family should always be ready and prepare because you just never know.

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More than enough water and I built a well a few years ago (just in case)

I don’t fully understand the logic behind. Hopefully it has a built-in GPS transponder and a siren, otherwise you won’t find your well after a really strong earthquake. It’s then several meters away, or buried in the deep or still not existing anymore. And on the other side, if everything is fine with your well, after a quake, you don’t need it as nothing severe happened and you can buy or get your water as usual.

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I don’t fully understand the logic behind. Hopefully it has a built-in GPS transponder and a siren, otherwise you won’t find your well after a really strong earthquake. It’s then several meters away, or buried in the deep or still not existing anymore. 

Goodness where does this stuff come from? We had two large quakes where I live in 2019, a M6.4 followed the next evening by a M7.1 quake. We have a lot of wells in the valley and nobodies well disappeared, was buried or "not existing anymore". It's just not how it works. A well would have to be right on the fault where the ground broke to be affected.

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The problem I see with some of the advice in the above posts is that they may not be practical for people living in a high rise apartment or condo complex of the kind common to big Asian cities, especially if the individual or family does not have a car. How, for example, does one store an earthquake supply kit outside the home when you live in a big building with thousands of others? Same thing with a water well.

Think of what one can do to prepare when they live in a big tall building with thousands of other people and do not own a car. A bug out bag makes sense. Nobody mentioned having important documents in one box, preferably something fire proof, ready to go. Not sure if you want to clobber the trunk of your car with an earthquake supply kit, but some freeze dried camp food and a half micron water filter take very little shelf space and give you some options in case the public water supply is contaminated and food hard to come by.

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