Highlights: Japan: residents worried about the prospect of a major earthquake. According to seismologists, there is between 60% and 80% risk that, in the next 25 years, Japan will be hit by a succession of magnitude 9 earthquakes. These megaearthquakes, of the Big one type, would cause tsunamis thirty meters high. And they would cause at least 500,000 deaths. In a recent survey, a majority of Japanese (53%) consider that they are insufficiently prepared for these predicted disasters.

In Japan, this Thursday, February 1, 2024, is a day of contemplation and sadness, one month after the magnitude 7.6 earthquake which, on January 1, devastated the Notô peninsula, in the west...

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Japan: residents worried about the prospect of a major earthquake

In Japan, this Thursday, February 1, 2024, is a day of contemplation and sadness, one month after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake which, on January 1, devastated the Notô peninsula, in the west of the country. Since then, 1,500 tremors have already been counted there. They cost the lives of more than 250 people and caused considerable damage. The archipelago had not experienced such a deadly and destructive catastrophe for half a dozen years.

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According to seismologists, there is between 60% and 80% risk that, in the next 25 years, Japan will be hit by a succession of magnitude 9 earthquakes, like in Fukushima in 2011 (our photo) . Reuters

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With our correspondent in Tokyo,

Bruno Duval

The seismic activity was so exceptional in January 2024 that many Japanese, worried, rushed to the stores. Like these Tokyoites: “

I bought something to securely attach to the walls anything that could fall on me. It seems that every big earthquake, many Japanese are injured by fridges or wardrobes that tip over on them

,” he says.

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From now on

,” announces this woman, “

my cupboards are filled to the brim: I have enough to eat and drink for a week. This is the advice, in case we are stuck at home after a major disaster

.” “

,” says this man, “

I got myself some survival blankets and heating patches because it is freezing in the emergency accommodation centers, which have to be ventilated constantly so as not to catch flu viruses and of Covid-19 are spreading there.

According to seismologists, there is between 60% and 80% risk that, in the next 25 years, Japan will be hit by a succession of magnitude 9 earthquakes, like in Fukushima in 2011. In certain regions , these megaearthquakes, of the

Big one

type , would cause tsunamis thirty meters high.

Insufficient preparation

And they would cause at least 500,000 deaths. In a recent survey, a majority of Japanese (53%) consider that they are insufficiently prepared for these predicted disasters and, therefore, fear, when the time comes, of not being able to manage them.

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