Chapter 1561: Earthquake and Tsunami
Along the way, Jiang Hao kept searching for news and found that the world was very strange. It was not in 2004 of the movie "The Day Afternoon", but in 2020, various technological levels were parallel to the Earth's world. He is now using a smartphone.
After arriving in Kobe, Eho reported to the hotel.
Japan is a country with frequent disasters, so it attaches great importance to the "World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction". This time, there were more than 1,000 members of the United Nations officials and other National Disaster Reduction Committees.
Jiang Hao met Mark, director of the United Nations Agency for Disaster Reduction, an old man from Italy. The old man saw it and said with a smile: "Jiang, do you know if you are famous?"
Jiang Hao was a little surprised, "What's my name?"
Mark took out his mobile phone and played the video to Jiang Hao, "This is the news that Japan has spread to the Internet, I saw you."
In the video, the captain of the "Sea God" attended a press conference. The reporter asked him about the incident. The captain told the incident all the time, which focused on Jiang Hao coming to remind him before the incident, thus saving the life of a ship.
In the subsequent video, Jiang Hao ran to the cabin and took out his work permit to remind the captain. Jiang Hao was very anxious at the time and did not pay attention at all. There were surveillance monitors everywhere on the ship, recording all the scene.
Jiang Hao took out his ID to show his identity. He was a researcher at the United Nations International Disaster Reduction Strategy. He had a premonition that an earthquake would cause a tsunami, so he asked the captain to find a way to deal with it.
The captain didn't believe it at first, but with Jiang Hao's insistence, he finally made the right decision to turn the bow. Just one minute later, a tsunami really appeared, and the bow of the boat was aimed at the tsunami wave.
At this time, the captain's camera appeared again and said in a sincere tone: "If it weren't for Mr. Jiang's reminder, I believe that the cruise ship would be overturned by the tsunami and sunk to the bottom of the sea. More than 5,000 people on the entire ship would be buried in the sea. Now, more than 3,700 people have survived. Thanks to Mr. Jiang. In the later period, because he could not rescue him in time, Mr. Jiang has been helping with treatment. I would like to thank Mr. Jiang even more here."
A reporter asked curiously: "He was talking about predictions at the time. Why did you believe that his predictions were right?"
"The current results show that Mr. Jiang's prediction is accurate." said the captain.
There are many comments below the video:
"I was on the 'Sea God' at that time. It was a disaster. I really thank Mr. Jiang for his prediction, otherwise I might have been buried at the bottom of the sea."
"I've seen him. Mr. Jiang fell into the water at the beginning. I saw him rescued many people who fell into the water. He is a hero."
"I don't believe in predictions, but sometimes, someone can really sense the danger is coming, which is amazing."
Mark looked at Jiang Hao and asked curiously: "Jiang, will you really foresee, just like a prophet?"
Jiang Hao thought for a while and nodded, "To be honest, I can indeed predict dangers and disasters in advance. This is an ability I was born with since childhood. I have never told others that I am afraid that others will say I am a monster. This is also the reason why I chose the environment and disaster response when I was in school."
I don’t know if I will use this kind of advance prediction in the future, Jiang Hao is preparing to give a bottom line for the future possibility.
Mark pondered for a moment, "There are many people with special abilities in this world. In fact, animals are a hundred times more sensitive than humans when perceiving danger. This has been scientifically verified. For example, before earthquakes and disasters come, many animals can predict in advance, such as mice, birds, cats and dogs, etc.."
After saying that, Mark suddenly realized something and looked at Jiang Hao with a smile, "Jiang, I don't mean to compare you with animals. If you really have this ability, it is actually very powerful. For example, this time, you saved many lives."
The meeting began, Jiang Hao was a researcher, and at such ministerial meetings, he could only be regarded as an ordinary United Nations staff member.
The theme of this conference is: "We are already at the intersection and we need to change completely!"
At the General Assembly, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations said in a heavy tone: "If I had to choose a sentence to describe the situation of the world, I would say that we live in a world where global challenges are increasingly intertwined, but the response is becoming increasingly fragmented. If this situation cannot be reversed, this is the recipe for disaster."
The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization said: "We live in the atmosphere at a highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 3 million years. The combination of record greenhouse gas levels and interrelated crises, climate change and the subsequent sea level rise, extreme weather, etc. will bring us extremely heavy disasters."
A representative of the International Ice and Snow Commission said: "Glaciers around the world are constantly melting due to warming temperatures. The report of Country Z mentioned that glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are retreating rapidly, and plants have grown on Mount Everest, the world's highest peak."
"If the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau disappear, it means that the top ten major rivers in Asia will dry up, which will directly affect the survival water of the 4 billion Asian population and the natural ecological situation in the entire Asian region."
"At the beginning of this year, the global average temperature reached a new high in recent years. Antarctic, which has always been known for its coldness, actually reached an astonishing 20 degrees Celsius. You should know that the temperature in Antarctica is generally only minus 35 degrees Celsius. Such temperatures make the Antarctic ice and snow melt in a short period of time, and a large amount of land is exposed, and some areas even have pools due to the melting snow!"
"The situation in the Arctic is even more urgent. As early as two years ago, there was a strange temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. You should know that there is a large amount of methane gas hidden under the Arctic permafrost. Now the melting of ice and snow is releasing a large amount of methane, which further aggravates the warming of the climate and forms a terrifying cycle!"
"The melting of glaciers will also bring about a major problem, which is the release of long-frozen viruses."
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Jiang Hao sat there, listening to the report and reading the information, feeling quite emotional. If this is true, disasters may be inevitable.
He has also read some information about greenhouse effects and temperature rises. Sites for measuring temperature are now spread all over the world. According to calculations, the earth's temperature has risen by about 1 degree a hundred years ago. This seems to be a trivial temperature change, but it is a catastrophic change for the earth's ecosystem and climate.
Glaciers melt and sea levels rise.
Land drought and desertification area increases.
The disease and pests on the earth are increasing.
Old diseases are revived, and new diseases are increasing, threatening human health.
Climate abnormalities, ocean storms, and extreme weather increases.
"Heat Waves" will increase year by year.
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The theme of this conference is climate, so the climate issues that are mainly discussed on the first day will last for about a week, and a series of catastrophic issues such as drought, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect disasters and other catastrophic issues will be discussed later.
Although Jiang Hao feels that such meetings can play a certain role in future judgment, there is a huge problem, that is, scientists are only responsible for research and reporting, and the real decision makers are not them.
Those presidential politicians consider more economic and political issues, and even a superpower is ready to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
You must be environmentally friendly, but I don’t have to abide by such regulations. If you are environmentally friendly, I can create exquisite egoism at will.
Jiang Hao is very busy every day after meetings, not busy with work, but busy with purchasing.
His space is now empty, and in this world, there may be various disasters and sufficient materials are needed.
Even if you don’t do it for yourself, you can save others.
In the past, whenever he went to a world, Jiang Hao had to prepare a lot of equipment and food, such as motorcycles, aircraft, wetsuits, food, wine, cigarettes, etc. Now that his cultivation level has reached the Golden Pill Realm, there is no need for many, but he still needs to prepare some necessary supplies.
In fact, shopping in Japan is not a good choice.
One word is expensive.
Especially food.
Fortunately, Jiang Hao won a lot on the boat and had more than 600,000 US dollars in cash. For several days, he spent more than 500,000 US dollars to buy a large amount of supplies. The space was finally ready to be the foundation and could deal with some situations.
Looking at the remaining tens of thousands of dollars, Jiang Hao suddenly regretted it. Why did he forget to remove the cash wall in the Sea God? It was estimated that there were five or six million.
On the last day of the International Conference on Disaster Reduction, the issue discussed was the problem of tsunami caused by earthquakes, which had given very serious catastrophic consequences to some coastal countries, especially those in earthquake zones.
Just as the meeting was halfway through, the venue suddenly shaking, everyone was shocked, and even women screamed.
"Earthquake is an earthquake, hide under the table!" someone shouted loudly.
It's really ironic,
I was studying earthquake problems, and an earthquake occurred at this time. Fortunately, I just swayed a few times and some things on the table were scattered, which did not have much impact.
Japan is a earthquake-prone area, so the most concerned thing is the earthquake problem. Their houses are therefore very seismic, which is determined based on the region. Otherwise, there would be more than 1,000 earthquakes a year on average, and those who are not earthquake-resistant will collapse early.
People were stunned for a moment, stood up and tidyed up their clothes, and prepared to continue the meeting, but at this moment, a Japanese staff member ran in, said a few words in the ear of the Japanese Disaster Director, and then handed a tablet. The director looked at the content on the tablet and his face changed.
After thinking about it, I stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, there is a news. I just received the information that the epicenter of this earthquake was in the Japanese Trench. After measurement, it reached the 8.3 magnitude quake of Richter. It was a strong earthquake, 132 kilometers away from us. The tsunami warning center has issued a tsunami warning, saying that there may be a "widespread and dangerous" huge tsunami!"
"We determined that the last tsunami was near the trench. There were two strong earthquakes in a row within a week. I don't know what it indicates. I would like to invite the expert members who came to the meeting this time to analyze the causes and give them reference to our country."
Two consecutive earthquakes occurred in the trench, and Jiang Hao suddenly thought of something!
Chapter completed!