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2023 OUTLINE OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

3. Conducting a series of events on 2022 National Disaster Prevention Day
To enhance the response capabilities and pre-disaster preparedness of governments at all levels,

and to raise citizens’ awareness of earthquake disaster prevention, a scenario entailing an earthquake
of a magnitude 8.0 occurring in the subduction zone of eastern Ryukyu, impacting Hualien County and
Yilan County was developed for an earthquake relief exercise, which was conducted from September

19 to 21, 2022. At 09:21 am on September 21, 2022, the exercise was kicked off with a national alert of
severe earthquake issued via the Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB)
of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC). Subsequently, a series of drills on di-
saster prevention were rolled out with more than 1,300 participants nationwide, including large-scale
mobilization of fire services and earthquake relief, message conveying via the emergency alert system

for major disasters, and earthquake evacuation for all drills, among others. In addition, as per the gov-
ernment’ request, throughout September 21, 2022, the Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation
(PTS), radio stations, cable television stations, and digital signage operators simultaneously and timely

broadcast any earthquake breaking news and response messages in the running banner on their dis-
play; in addition, radio stations constantly broadcast earthquake-relevant messages over the air on their
radio channels—with audio/visual disaster messages of great significance delivered by President Tsai
Ing-Wen—so that viewers could be informed of emergent disaster messages in real time. Meanwhile,
to encourage citizens to participate in the exercises and drills on National Disaster Prevention Day, nu-

merous activities were arranged by the government, including the implementation plan for publicity on
earthquake disaster prevention for citizens (e.g., evacuation drills, quizzes on disaster prevention tips,
and publicity for earthquake disaster preparedness), and the setup of disaster-prevention zones in var-

ious outlets and online platforms. Overall, the goal was to promote skills and abilities related to earth-
quake disaster prevention and rescue at the national level, while raising citizens’ awareness of disaster
prevention and their ability for self-help and mutual assistance, plus achieving citizens’ autonomous
preparedness for disaster prevention, to achieve disaster prevention and mitigation for citizens and the
nation. Therefore, the damage caused by earthquake disasters in the real world might be minimized in

the future. For National Disaster Prevention Day in 2023, the NFA will present a series of disaster pre-
paredness activities in cooperation with the Executive Yuan.

4. Held the "Central Disaster Prevention and Relief Operations Plan Review
and Improvement Meeting of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI)"

With respect to the preparedness planning competence of the NFA for disaster prevention and

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