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Using Disaster Voice Messaging Service
Disaster Voice Messaging Service is a service to record voices with a
smartphone and deliver them as a voice message to people to whom you want
to deliver the information that you are safe when large-scale disasters occur.
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From the au Disaster Countermeasure menu, [
災害用音声お
届けサービス
] (Disaster Voice Messaging Service).
Follow the on-screen instructions.
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Using Disaster Information
You can check the histories of Disaster and Evacuation Information delivered
by the local governments, Disaster Information portal, etc.
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From the au Disaster Countermeasure menu, [
災害情報
]
(Disaster Information).
Select an item to check.
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Emergency Rapid Mail is free of both information charges and
communication charges.
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The alarm tone does not ring if Emergency Rapid Mail is received during
a call.
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Emergency Rapid Mail cannot be received while the power is turned off.
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Emergency Rapid Mail may not be received when you are in a place
where the signal cannot be received (e.g. tunnels and basements) or the
signal is weak, even within the service area.
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Emergency Rapid Mail which failed to be received will not be able to be
received again.
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When you receive Emergency Rapid Mail, you will be notified by the
dedicated alarm tone and the vibrator. The alarm tone cannot be changed.
* When you receive Earthquake Early Warning, you will be notified by the alarm
tone, voice (“
地震です
” (Jishin-desu)) meaning that an earthquake has
occurred and the vibrator.
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Information intended for the areas of other than your present location may
be received.
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As for this service, the Company shall not be liable for any damage incurred
on the users resulted from failure or delay of information delivery due to
communication disturbance or system failure, contents of the information or
other problems that are not supposed to be blamed on the Company.
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For details on Earthquake Early Warning and Tsunami Warning provided
by the Japan Meteorological Agency, refer to the agency's homepage.
(
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html
)
Earthquake Early Warning
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Earthquake Early Warning notifies areas where a strong shaking (Japan
seismic scale 4 or more) is expected when an earthquake whose maximum
Japan seismic scale is predicted of 5-lower or more has been detected.
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This service detects an earthquake (P-wave, preliminary tremors) near
the seismic center immediately after the earthquake occurs and
automatically calculates its location, scale and predicted strength of the
shaking. After that, you will be notified of the earthquake as soon as
possible within a few seconds to dozens of seconds before a strong
shaking from the earthquake (S-wave, principal shock) occurs.
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In the vicinity of the seismic center, a strong shaking may reach you
before Earthquake Early Warning.
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The Earthquake Early Warning distribution system provided by this
service is different from that provided by TV, radio and other
communication media and thus the arriving time of Earthquake Early
Warning may be different among those media.
Tsunami Warning
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Tsunami Warning notifies areas including target sea coasts of Major Tsunami
Warning and Tsunami Warning provided by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Disaster and Evacuation Information
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Disaster and Evacuation Information notifies information related to the safety
of citizens, such as evacuation advisories, evacuation orders or various
alarms delivered by the national government or the local governments.
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To use this service via Wi-Fi
®
, making initial settings via 4G (LTE/WiMAX
2+) networks is required.
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Voice messages can be recorded for up to 30 seconds.
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Voice messages can be exchanged among au phones as well as other
carriers' cell phones and PHS devices.
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Voices may not be heard when the media sound volume is set to low.
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When no free space is left on the internal memory, voice messages may
not be saved or played.
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Some cell phones cannot receive voice messages. For details, refer to
the au homepage.