Comments on: 3 in 5 users trust their earthquake early warning apps http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/03/08/3-in-5-users-trust-their-earthquake-early-warning-apps/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: DerekNobuyuki http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/03/08/3-in-5-users-trust-their-earthquake-early-warning-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-249914 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:57:50 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4787#comment-249914 The area message alerts for earthquakes, tsunami, and typhoon emergencies, etc is reasonable enough. Sometimes there are false positives and sometimes it doesn’t go off at all but in general it is decent in Tokyo.

The 3rd party apps (as opposed to carrier ones baked into their feature phone OSs) are not as good as it seems they often rely on channels of information for reporting quakes rather than actually warning about quakes.

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