Filipinos in Japan Recount Anxious Moments After False Earthquake Alert
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Japan was alarmed after the country's Meteorological Agency mistakenly issued a warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake. This triggered emergency alerts on millions of mobile phones. The false alert was withdrawn minutes later, with authorities publicly apologizing for the inconvenience and trouble caused. The incident occurred when the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially announced that a powerful earthquake of magnitude 9.9 had been reco…
Filipinos in Japan recount anxious moments after false earthquake alert
TOKYO — An emergency alert warning of a magnitude 9.9 earthquake turned an otherwise ordinary afternoon in Japan into several minutes of anxiety on Friday, as phones rang across the country and people braced for powerful shaking that never came.
As they explained from the organism, the confusion was generated because they were wrong in the face of an earthquake that occurred on a Russian peninsula. In addition, there was an overestimation of the intensity of the telluric movement.
Japanese officials accidentally issued phone alerts, warning about "the most powerful earthquake ever recorded." After warning millions of people to take shelter, the Japanese Meteorological Agency posted on its website that an earthquake of 9.9 million people would take place ten minutes later, another announcement [...]
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