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disaster relief capacity in ordinary days and disaster events. When the disaster category is unspecified,
the central disaster response mechanism will be immediately activated. Besides, the NFA collaborates
with the manpower of Taiwan Power, Taiwan Water, and CPC to consolidate life maintenance pipelines
related to disasters and establish a disaster information review mechanism. Any discrepancy will be

explained timely in a public session. Furthermore, 6 press conferences are taken place on a daily basis
to release disaster propaganda, alerts, or information, reinforcing the network of delivery disaster re-
sponse information. According to relevant information, advance teams will also be dispatched to EOC
of counties and cities with relatively higher risks before the disaster in order to control the disaster status

and demand for support. After a typhoon alert is canceled, the CEOC shall maintain its operations to
track and control the water, electricity, communications, and road repair works depending on demand,
helping to increase the efficiency of restoration and help all citizens get back to routine life.

3. Held a series of activities for the 2021 National Disaster Prevention Day
In order to enhance the earthquake disaster response capacity and pre-disaster preparation
work of governments at all levels, we have strengthened the national earthquake disaster prevention
awareness and planned earthquake disaster prevention publicity activities for National Disaster Pre-

vention Day. On September 15, 2021, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the eastern Ryukyu subduction
zone was set to simulate the situation of a large number of collapsed buildings in the eastern region,
causing the dire situation of injuries and casualties. At the same time, the Central Weather Bureau

of the MOTC issued a strong earthquake message through the disaster prevention warning system,
named Cell Broadcast Service (CBS), and then a series of disaster prevention drills were launched,
including large-scale earthquake disaster firefighting and disaster relief mobilization drills, major di-
saster emergency warning message transmission drills, earthquake evacuation drills for all people,
etc. In addition, the government requested PTV, various wireless TV stations, various cable television

system stations, and digital signage operators to simultaneously broadcast the earthquake emer-
gency response information scroll through the message service platform on September 17, 2021,
and requested radio stations to simultaneously broadcast the information by voice. President Tsai

Ing-wen delivered important disaster information via breaking news broadcast, and the large-scale
earthquake firefighting and disaster relief exercises information was broadcasted via PTV and various
wireless TV stations, so that viewers could simultaneously receive government disaster emergen-
cy messages. In addition, to encourage the public to participate in the exercises, the government
organized the National Disaster Prevention Day and Disaster Prevention Week network promotion

campaign. Multiple stores and online platforms organized disaster prevention activities, hoping to

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