{"id":155,"date":"2005-12-19T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/quake-alarm-cell-phone-to-be-tested-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T02:09:16","slug":"quake-alarm-cell-phone-to-be-tested-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/quake-alarm-cell-phone-to-be-tested-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Quake-Alarm Cell Phone to be Tested in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Yomiuri Online is reporting on the testing of a new emergency broadcast system in Japan that would automatically turn on cell phones and alert users to major earthquakes and other natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The article reads &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to develop a new emergency-broadcast system capable of automatically turning on cell phones so it can send a warning alarm and information to them in case of a major earthquake or other natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry is planning to start testing the system, which uses a digital terrestrial television broadcasting signal, before March 31, and it hopes to be able to put it into practice within a few years, a ministry official said.<\/p>\n<p>The system would allow cell phone users to receive useful data, including information about disasters, and evacuation instructions and routes. The ministry believes text messages would help people evacuate a disaster area safely and, in doing so, prevent a disaster situation from worsening.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry plans to test the system in Sapporo in April 2006, piggybacking a new broadcasting system, called One Seg, that is being set up to enable television programs to be played on cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>The new system will enable the ministry to send an emergency-broadcast signal to specially designed cell phones capable of being switched on remotely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Yomiuri Online is reporting on the testing of a new emergency broadcast system in Japan that would automatically turn on cell phones and alert users to major earthquakes and other natural disasters. The article reads &#8212; The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to develop a new emergency-broadcast system capable of automatically turning [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/quake-alarm-cell-phone-to-be-tested-in-japan\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Quake-Alarm Cell Phone to be Tested in Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}