Liputan6.com, Tokyo – The Japanese government said that much more needs to be done to prepare for the possibility of an “earthquake” in order to reduce the estimated number of victims that are afraid to reach up to 300,000 people.
The earthquake was very difficult to predict, but in January the government group raised a small assessment of the possibility of a large earthquake in the height of Nankai, off the coast of Japan, and in the next 30 years – from up to 75 to 82 percent.
Then the government published a new assessment in March, which stated that such an earthquake of Mega and Tsunami, which followed him, could lead to 298,000 deaths and material losses up to 2 trillion US dollars.
In 2014, the Central Council for Combating natural disasters issued a readiness plan, which recommended a series of stages, which, as expected, would reduce the number of victims by 80 percent.
However, according to the news report Kyodo, The government states that so far the steps taken were able to reduce the number of victims by 20 percent. Therefore, on Tuesday (1/7/2025), the government published an updated readiness plan.
This last plan recommends accelerating efforts, including the construction of embankment and evacuation buildings, as well as a large routine evacuation training to increase the readiness for the community.
“The state, local self-government, companies and non-profit organizations must unite and take specific steps in order to save as many lives as possible,” said the Prime Minister of the Japanese Prime Minister Shiger Ishab at the government meeting, as the local media reported and reported CNA.
The Nankai trench is an underwater basin along the 800 -kilometer, which extends parallel to the southern coast of Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean, where the tectonic plate submits – or slowly slides through other plates.
Over the past 1400 years, a destructive earthquake in the Nankai trenches occurs every 100-200 years. The last event occurred in 1946.
In August, the Japanese meteorological agency (JMA) released its first early warning that the possibility of an earthquake has increased, but the warning was canceled in one week.
