 When you go back to your house tonight before you sleep Check your bed and check the furniture in your bedroom See if it's properly placed Make sure that the wardrobe will not fall on you when the earthquake hits you tonight Disaster reduction is not necessarily a very attractive issue It's human nature that you don't want to see the risk We cannot prepare for everything But if we are better prepared at least We can have quick recovery. In Japan we have something called the real-time earthquake early warning system There's a time difference between the primary wave and the secondary wave of a major earthquake Usually the disaster comes from the secondary wave So using the time difference we can earn five to ten seconds Maybe 60 seconds before the main shake comes In the case of the March 11 earthquake We in Japan have the Shinkansen bullet trains They were running at the speed of 270 kilometers per hour But using this system they put on the emergency brakes speed it down About 100 kilometers. So when the main shake came no derailment So no injuries no fatalities But unfortunately approximately 20,000 people were trapped The prediction was for magnitude 8.2 or 8.3 earthquake But the real earthquake was magnitude 9 Which is far stronger It really emphasizes that we have to be better prepared But to do this you need proper investment We need international concerted action to propagate the idea that disasters can be reduced