Earlier today (3rd), a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Hualien. The largest earthquake with a magnitude of 6 occurred in Heping Township, Hualien County. Earlier, news of the disaster spread across Taiwan, and many people shared the disaster situation in their own places on social platforms. LINE officials also announced earlier that the “LINE Security Report” function has been re-opened. Now you can report the security situation to your relatives and friends by opening LINE, and you can also know whether everyone is safe. In addition, we also help you organize what you want to know about disasters, such as how to suspend classes and classes, how to obtain disaster notifications, how to synchronize the latest disaster information, etc.
The LINE safety notification function is now available again. Report your situation to your relatives and friends! Additional screenings at the same scene: suspension of classes, disaster notices, and simultaneous understanding of the latest disaster situations
The earthquake shocked the whole Taiwan earlier, and disasters are now being reported in various places. LINE also announced earlier that it will reopen the “LINE Safety Report” function. The purpose of this function is to allow users to report their own status in the most convenient and quick way. No need to type, just click a button to report their safety status through LINE immediately when an emergency disaster occurs.
After turning on the security notification function, please click “I am safe” if everything is fine. If you are affected and need assistance, you can click “I am affected” and describe your situation so that your friends can provide appropriate assistance as much as possible.
All friends who have participated in the security report will be displayed in a list on this page.
Additional screening at the same scene: Taiwan’s disaster news and class suspension information can be grasped at once
Latest disaster news and topics
In LINE TODAY, after major disasters or events occur, we will also help people organize relevant information into independent “topics”. Taking the 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Hualien earlier today (3rd) as an example, we have now organized the latest news, local disasters, earthquake causes, disaster prevention instructions and other information that the public cares about.
Class suspension information
In addition, some media earlier reported fake news stating that New Taipei City will suspend classes and classes today (3rd). The New Taipei City Government has issued a press release denying the news. It is recommended that if you want to know whether there are classes in your county or city, you can go to the Global Information Network of the General Office of Personnel and Administration, Executive Yuan, where the latest information on class suspensions will be announced.
national alert
After every earthquake, some people often report that they did not receive national alert notifications on their mobile phones. Today (3rd), Wu Jianfu, director of the Earthquake Forecasting and Reporting Center, said that disaster prevention warnings have been issued for 12 counties and cities in Taiwan, but the reason why some people did not receive the notice is still being clarified. According to the transmission standards, warnings will be sent to areas with an estimated scale of 5 or above and a seismic intensity of 4 or above. But this is only an estimate. The computer can only predict the subsequent situation within 1 second of the seismic P wave, so there will be errors.
If you want to confirm whether you have turned on notifications, you can open Settings > Notifications > Turn on government alert notifications on your iPhone.
National Disaster Prevention and Rescue Technology Center
Since some people have reported that their mobile phones may not receive national alerts due to various factors such as their location, it is recommended that you also use the “National Disaster Prevention and Rescue Technology Center“Add the LINE official account as a friend to ensure that the most immediate warning can be provided in the event of any subsequent disasters.
After adding the National Disaster Prevention and Technology Center as a friend, expand the function menu and click “Subscribe Alerts”, then select the administrative region to subscribe. You can further check the items for which you want to subscribe to alerts. For example, if you want to get information about earthquake reports, typhoons, flooding, work and school closures, thunderstorms, rainfall, etc., you can check here the various meteorological, hydrological, transportation, and livelihood information you want to know.
Taking the earlier earthquake as an example, a report and the scope of impact will be sent every time an earthquake occurs, and more complete earthquake information will be sent in the future.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese