There is a 70 percent chance of a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake striking Tokyo in the next 30 years. Daniel Hurst joins Oscar Boyd to discuss how ready Japan's capital city is.
Also, today is Deep Dive's first birthday. Shaun McKenna turns the tables on Oscar to look back at the last year of the podcast.
Read more:
- Tokyo braces for the earthquake of a century (Daniel Hurst, The Guardian)
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's disaster preparedness handbook
- Eight apps that could save your life in Japan (Disaster expert Robin Lewis, Medium)
- What to do before, during and after an earthquake (Kris Kosaka, The Japan Times)
- The Japan Times' Disaster Portal
- The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park
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