Chapter 1556 Earthquake and Tsunami

Along the way, Jiang Hao kept searching for news and found that this world is very strange. It is not 2004 in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow", but 2020. Various technological levels are parallel to the earth's world. He now uses a smartphone.

After arriving in Kobe, Jiang Hao reported to the hotel.

Japan is a country prone to disasters, so it attaches great importance to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. More than a thousand people from the United Nations and members of other national disaster risk reduction committees attended the conference.

Jiang Hao met Mark, the director of the United Nations International Agency for Disaster Reduction, an old man from Italy. The old man smiled and said, "Jiang, you know you are famous?"

Jiang Hao was a little surprised, "What's my reputation?"

Mark took out his mobile phone and played the video to Jiang Hao, "This is the news from Japan that was posted on the Internet. I saw you."

In the video, the captain of the Poseidon attended a press conference. The reporter asked him what happened. The captain told the story exactly, and highlighted that Jiang Hao came to warn him before the incident, thus saving the life of a ship.

In the subsequent video, a video of Jiang Hao running to the cabin and taking out his work permit to remind the captain was played. Jiang Hao was in a hurry at the time and didn't pay attention at all. There were surveillance cameras everywhere on the ship, which recorded the whole scene.

Jiang Hao took out his ID and showed his identity. He was a researcher of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. He had a premonition that an earthquake would cause a tsunami, and 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 ship around. Just a minute later, a tsunami really appeared, and the ship's bow was aimed at the tsunami wave.

At this time, the captain's camera appeared again, and he said in a sincere tone: "If Mr. Jiang hadn't reminded me, I believe that the cruise ship would have been overturned by the tsunami and sunk to the bottom of the sea, and more than 5,000 people on the ship would have been buried in the sea. But now, we have survived for three years." More than 1,700 people, I have to thank Mr. Jiang for this, and since he could not be rescued in time, Mr. Jiang has been helping with the treatment. Here I want to thank Mr. Jiang even more. "

A reporter asked curiously: "He was talking about predictions. Why do you believe that his predictions are correct?"

"The current results show that Mr. Jiang's prediction is accurate." The captain said.

There are many comments below the video:

"I was on the Poseidon at the time. It was really a disaster. I sincerely thank Mr. Jiang for his prediction, otherwise I might have been buried under the sea."

"I have seen him. Mr. Jiang fell into the water at the beginning. I saw him rescue many people who fell into the water. He is a hero."

"I don't believe in predictions, but sometimes, some people can really sense when danger is coming, which is amazing."

Mark looked at Jiang Hao and asked curiously: "Jiang, can you really predict things, like a prophet?"

Jiang Hao thought for a while, nodded and said: "To tell you the truth, I can indeed predict dangers and disasters in advance. This is an ability I have been born with since I was a child. I have never told others for fear of others. Call me a monster, which is why I chose to study environment and disaster response when I was in school.”

Not knowing whether he would use this kind of advance prediction in the future, Jiang Hao prepared to lay a foundation for future possibilities.

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 it comes to sensing danger. This has long been scientifically verified. For example, before earthquakes and disasters, many animals You can predict in advance, this is the case with rats, birds, cats and dogs, etc.”

After Mark finished speaking, he suddenly realized something and looked at Jiang Hao with a smile, "Jiang, I didn't mean to compare you with animals. If you really have this ability, it's actually very powerful. Just like this time, you saved many people's lives." life."

The meeting began. Jiang Hao was a researcher. In this kind of ministerial meeting, he could only be regarded as an ordinary staff member of the United Nations.

The theme of this conference is: "We are at a crossroads and we need radical change!"

At the conference, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction said with a serious tone: “If I had to choose one sentence to describe the state of the world, I would say that we live in a world where global challenges are increasingly intertwined. Yet the response is becoming increasingly fragmented, which is a recipe for disaster if this situation cannot be reversed.”

The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization said: “We live in an atmosphere with the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 3 million years, due to record greenhouse gas levels and interconnected crises combined with urbanization, environmental degradation and water stress. Climate change and the resulting rise in sea levels and extreme weather will bring us extremely heavy disasters.”

A representative of the International Ice and Snow Commission said: "Glaciers around the world are melting due to warming temperatures. The report from country Z mentioned that the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are retreating rapidly, and even glaciers have grown on the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. plant."

"If the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau disappear, it means that the ten major rivers in Asia will dry up, which will directly affect the living water supply of 4 billion Asian people, as well as the natural ecological conditions of the entire Asian region."

"At the beginning of this year, the global average temperature reached a new high in recent years. The temperature in Antarctica, which has always been known for its coldness, reached an astonishing 20 degrees Celsius. You know, the temperature in Antarctica is generally only minus 35 degrees Celsius. Such temperatures make the Antarctic ice and snow In a short period of time, the melting rate was visible to the naked eye, and a large amount of land was exposed, and pools even appeared in some areas due to melting snow! "

"The situation in the Arctic is even more urgent. As early as two years ago, there was a strange situation with a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. You must know that there is a large amount of methane gas under the Arctic permafrost, and now the melting of ice and snow is releasing a large amount of methane. released, thereby further aggravating climate warming and forming a terrible cycle!”

"The melting of glaciers will also bring about a major problem, which is the release of viruses that have been frozen for a long time."

Jiang Hao sat there, listening to the report and looking at the information, feeling quite emotional. If this continues, the disaster may really be unavoidable.

He has also read some information about the greenhouse effect and temperature rise. Temperature measurement sites are now all over the world. According to calculations, the earth is about 1 degree warmer than it was a hundred years ago. This seems like an insignificant temperature change. But it is a catastrophic change for the earth's ecosystem and climate.

Glaciers melt and sea levels rise.

The land is dry and the desertification area is increasing.

There is an increase in pests and diseases on the planet.

Old diseases are resurrecting, and new diseases are increasing, threatening human health.

Climate anomalies, ocean storms, and extreme weather are increasing.

"Heat waves" will increase every year.

The theme of this conference is climate, so the climate issue will be mainly discussed on the first day. The conference will last for about a week. Later, a series of disaster issues such as drought, flood, earthquake, tsunami, and insect pests will also be discussed.

Although Jiang Hao feels that this kind of meeting can play a certain role in future judgment, there is a huge problem, that is, scientists are only responsible for research and reporting, and they are not the real decision-makers.

Those presidential politicians consider more economic factors and political issues, and even a certain superpower is preparing 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 make whatever I want, exquisite egoism.

Every day after the meeting, Jiang Hao is very busy, not with work, but with shopping.

His space is now empty. In this world, we may encounter various disasters and need to prepare sufficient supplies.

Even if it's not for yourself, you can still save others.

In the past, Jiang Hao had to prepare a lot of equipment and food every time he went to a world, such as motorcycles, aircraft, diving suits, food, drinks, cigarettes, etc. Now that his cultivation has reached the Golden Core realm, many of them are no longer necessary, but the necessary supplies Still need to prepare some.

In fact, shopping in Japan is really not a good choice.

In one word, expensive.

Especially the food.

Fortunately, Jiang Hao won a prize on the ship and had more than 600,000 US dollars in cash. Over the past few days, he spent more than 500,000 US dollars to purchase a large amount of supplies. Finally, he had enough space to deal with some situations.

Looking at the few tens of thousands of dollars left, Jiang Hao suddenly regretted why he had forgotten to take down the cash wall on the Poseidon. It was estimated that there were five to six million in it.

On the last day of the International Conference on Disaster Reduction, the issue discussed was the issue of tsunamis caused by earthquakes. This issue has caused very serious catastrophic consequences to some coastal countries, especially those in earthquake zones.

Just in the middle of the meeting, the venue suddenly shook, everyone was shocked, and even a woman screamed.

"Earthquake, it's an earthquake, hide under the table!" someone shouted.

What an irony,

I was studying earthquake issues, and an earthquake occurred at this time, but fortunately, it only shook a few times, and some things on the table scattered, so it didn't cause much impact.

Japan is an earthquake-prone area, so earthquakes are what they are most concerned about. The seismic resistance of their houses is therefore very high, which is determined by the region. Otherwise, there will be more than a thousand earthquakes a year on average, and those that are not earthquake-resistant will collapse early.

People calmed down after a while, stood up, packed their clothes, and were ready to continue the meeting. But at this moment, a Japanese staff member ran in, said something in the ear of the Japanese Disaster Director, and then handed over a tablet. The director looked at it The content on the tablet changed his face.

After thinking about it, he stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, I have some news. I just received information that the epicenter of this earthquake was in the Japan Trench. It was measured to have a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale. It was a strong earthquake. It was 132 meters away from us. Kilometers, the Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning, saying that a "widespread and dangerous" huge tsunami may occur!

"We determined that the last tsunami was located near the trench. There were two strong earthquakes in a week. I don't know what it means. I would like to invite the expert members attending the meeting to analyze the causes and provide our country with a reference. "

Two consecutive earthquakes occurred in the trench. Jiang Hao suddenly thought of something!