“If a big earthquake comes, hurry up and get to higher ground!”

On the evening of New Year's Day, 2024, a massive earthquake measuring about 7 on the Japanese seismic scale struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. How did people manage to escape when the time between the quake and the tsunami was so much shorter than it had been in the case of another seismic disaster in March 2011?

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