Hiroshima Prefecture

Hiroshima Prefecture
Disaster Email Now updated!
Notification ServiceSign up
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Delivering essential life-saving information!
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New features!

◎ Alert levels made more understandable◎ Easy to understand information sent by email◎ Emails sent in 11 languages◎ Essential information sent in real time(PCs, smartphones)(Feature phones(regular cellphones))

See the reverse sidefor how to sign up

Why should you sign up for the Disaster Email Notification?
This service brings together essential disaster information to protect Hiroshima Prefecture residents' lives from disaster and sends it out in real time.

Provideslife-saving information

Sign up for alerts
on multiple regions

Identify when to evacuate
based on the alert level

You can obtain the information needed
to protect yourself, such as evacuation
advisory/order status, tsunami andweather cautions and alerts, and risk of
mudslides or flooding.

You can register multiple
municipalities, including where youlive. You can see what kinds of dangers
are occurring in registered areas.

You can judge when toevacuate and what actions
to take based on the alertlevel.

* Although the service is free, the user is responsible for telecommunications charges such as those needed to receive emails.

You will be sent an email if evacuation is necessary in the area where you live.

What kind ofinformation
can you receive?

 When evacuation information [prepare to evacuate/  When a river has reached a flood danger levelcommence evacuation of seniors and other impaired  When mudslide warning information has been issued
individuals, evacuation advisory, (emergency) When a tsunami warning has been issued
evacuation order] has been issued
Note: Some information is sent through emergency alert emails too.

Crisis Management Department, Crisis Management Bureau, Hiroshima Prefecture
TEL. 082-513-2786

Available in Japanese onlyBe sure to sign up to be prepared
for a disaster!
STEP 1

Signup and settings are easy!

Scan the QR code on the cover and send a blank email.
Hiroshima Disaster Prevention - Notification ofEvacuation information / Evacuation shelter information

STEP 2The sign-up address will be sent by email. Access it and proceed to thesignup page.

STEP 3

Configure receipt settings. "Necessary items only" is recommended forfirst-time signups.

STEP 4You can register easily by simply configuring the municipality and items ofinformation you want to receive.

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Notices sent by the Hiroshima Prefecture Disaster Email Notification Service (required items only)

Title

Evacuation
information

Weather caution– warning
Record short-term
heavy rainfall
information
Mudslide warning
information* The text of the actual email may differ from the illustration.

ContentDisaster information

Alert level 5

Evacuation order

Alert level 4

Evacuation advisory

Alert level 4

Prepare to evacuate/commence
evacuation of seniors andother impaired individuals

Alert level 3

Sent when the municipality has issued evacuation
information (the 4 levels to the left)* Information on the opening of evacuation sites can bechecked on the Hiroshima Prefecture
Disaster-prevention Website linked in the text of theevacuation information email.

Special warning

Equivalent to alert levels 4-5

Sent when the danger of a serious disaster has
increased markedly, to urge maximum caution

Warning

Equivalent to alert levels 3-4

Early warning sent to be alert for the risk of serious
disasters

Record short-term heavy rainfall information

Sent when short-term heavy rainfall levels occurring
only once every few years has been observed orpredicted

Mudslide warning
information

Equivalent to alert level 4

Sent when a heavy rainfall warning has been issued andthe risk of mudslides has increased further

Mudslide danger
information

Base value exceeded at present, base value to beexceeded in one-hour, base value to be exceededin two hours, base value to be
Equivalent to alert level 4
exceeded in three hours

Sent when a risk of mudslide has been identified due toheavy rainfall

Tsunami information

Tsunami warning

Sent when there is a risk of damage due to a tsunami
with a maximum height of 0.2-1 m

Designated riverflooding warning

Flooding information,
Equivalent to alert levels 4-5
flooding danger information

Flood warning
danger information

Highly dangerous,
extremely dangerous

Equivalent to alert level 4

Early warning sent for water level, or current
information on a designated river segment, as areference for residents in considering evacuation in
response to rising river levels, flooding, etc.
Additional flood warning information, sent when a riskof flooding has been identified in small/medium-sized
rivers

You also can configure the service to receive information additional to that in the table above.
Alert level: Actions to take depending on the risk of damage, and related information to assist with such actions
Alert level information: Shows the level of evacuation information to which the disaster/weather information corresponds, as a reference for residents when deciding whether or not to evacuate.

Hiroshima Prefecture's "Minna de Gensai"
disaster-mitigation activity

Che c k n o w !!

Aiming to realize a disaster-resistant Hiroshima Prefecture, this activity began in 2015 through residents,
volunteer disaster-prevention organizations, businesses, governments, and others cooperating
to take appropriate actions to protect residents from disasters.

See the website for details. ▶▶▶

First steps to mitigate a disasterSearch

Minna de Gensai Promotion Department,
Crisis Management Bureau, Hiroshima Prefecture TEL. 082-513-2781
Available in Japanese only

Search forevacuation locations
Basic disaster-prevention
knowledge
2D code for smartphone use

Hazard maps
Disaster-prevention
event information

Plus, a wealth ofother disaster-prevention information!!