- Title: Tokyo 2020 organisers hold earthquake drill at Olympics venue
- Date: 19th December 2019
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (DECEMBER 19, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF ARIAKE GYMNASTICS CENTRE, WHICH WILL HOSTS GYMNASTICS AND BOCCIA AT TOKYO 2020 GAMES SPECTATORS SITTING INSIDE GYMNASTICS CENTRE AS NOISE SIMULATING EARTHQUAKE GOES OFF VARIOUS OF SPECTATORS SITTING AS EARTHQUAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH VARIOUS OF MEDICS TENDING TO DUMMIES SIMULATING BEING SEVERELY INJURED PEOPLE POLICEMAN GIVING ANNOUNCEMENT ON MEGAPHONE VARIOUS OF MEDICS TENDING TO DUMMIES VARIOUS OF MEDICS TENDING TO DUMMY FIRE FIGHTERS LIFTING DUMMY AND MOVING IT ONTO STRETCHER FIREFIGHTER APPLYING STRAP TO THE DUMMY MEMBERS OF SELF DEFENCE FORCE (SDF) CARRYING DUMMY ON STRETCHER OUT OF VENUE SDF MEMBERS CARRYING DUMMY ON STRETCHER TO TRIAGE AREA VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTER TENDING TO DUMMY VARIOUS OF DOCTOR TENDING TO DUMMY VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTER NOTING INJURIES ON BOARD DOCTOR TENDING TO WOMAN ON STRETCHER MAN BEING CARRIED BY MEDICS AND SDF MEMBERS ON STRETCHER MEDICS TENDING TO MAN ON GROUND SDF MEMBERS CARRYING WOMAN BY ARMS VARIOUS OF SDF MEMBERS CARRYING WOMAN ON STRETCHER PEOPLE BEING EVACUATED AWAY FROM GYMNASTICS ARENA AND TWO OTHER OLYMPICS VENUES BLIND PERSON AND PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS BEING EVACUATED VARIOUS OF PEOPLE BEING EVACUATED POLICEMAN DIRECTING EVACUATED PEOPLE (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) DIRECTOR FOR SECURITY, PLANNING AND PROMOTION OF TOKYO 2020 AT TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT, HIROYA YARIMIZU, SAYING: "Firstly, I think we have achieved most of our primary purposes of this drill. As the most important aim, we focused on how the Olympic Organising Committee and Tokyo (Metropolitan Government) could interact with each other. The police, fire fighters and Self Defence Forces joined the drill this time and I think we all communicated well." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ARRIVING AT EVACUATION AREA OFFICIAL GIVING ANNOUNCEMENT IN JAPANESE VARIOUS OF OFFICIALS HANDING OUT WATER BOTTLES TO PEOPLE STORY: Tokyo 2020 organisers held an earthquake drill on Thursday (December 19) at Ariake Gymnastics Centre, a newly built venue for next year's Olympics, to test their readiness should a disaster strike during the Games. Organisers simulated their response should a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, centred in northern Tokyo Bay, the site of 12 Olympic venues, strike. Although only 350 spectators took part in the drill, organisers were pleased with the cooperation between various agencies. Medics, police, firefighters and SDF members arrived at the Gymnastics Centre as part of the drill to tend to spectators pretending to be injured, and dummies representing the more serious casualties. Japan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis and preparing for any possible disaster striking during the Games represents a big headache for organisers. Japan experiences an average of 1,500 earthquakes a year, although few cause any damage, let alone loss of life. (Production: Jack Tarrant)
- Embargoed: 2nd January 2020 07:13
- Keywords: Japan Olympics disaster earthquake drill simulation
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Olympics,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001BAN3SXR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Tokyo 2020 organisers held an earthquake drill on Thursday (December 19) at Ariake Gymnastics Centre, a newly built venue for next year's Olympics, to test their readiness should a disaster strike during the Games.
Organisers simulated their response should a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, centred in northern Tokyo Bay, the site of 12 Olympic venues, strike.
Although only 350 spectators took part in the drill, organisers were pleased with the cooperation between various agencies.
Medics, police, firefighters and SDF members arrived at the Gymnastics Centre as part of the drill to tend to spectators pretending to be injured, and dummies representing the more serious casualties.
Japan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis and preparing for any possible disaster striking during the Games represents a big headache for organisers. Japan experiences an average of 1,500 earthquakes a year, although few cause any damage, let alone loss of life.
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