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>NKH have not been joking around with the evacuation warnings for Ishikawa-ken.

That is standard protocol and has been iterated upon each time emergencies like this have occured.

Nowadays they put up a very strong act of sounding emotional and serious to try and convince as many who are watching/listening to get off their arse and evacuate.

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I flipped through the other channels and they didn't sound nearly as emotional.

At one point, the NHK voice said, "Stop watching TV! Turn it off and run away! No, don't turn it off, just run away!"

They said the same things in the same dramatic tone when there was a tsunami warning issued after an Earthquake overseas

Can’t imagine that causing an issue down the road… hope they track and modulate how many remaining levels of urgency they have available.

This reminds me of the time a PM asked me if it was possible to make a P-1 priority ticket because we already had a bunch of P0 tickets and they wanted one to be higher priority.

What needs more urgency than a tsunami alert, but is still tame enough for you to run away from?

A bigger verified tsunami

If you wait for the tsunami to be confirmed, you are already dead.

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