Recently, NHK BS's N-Spe has been rebroadcasting past programs related to earthquakes.

As usual, I'm watching the recordings "alone" for about 15 minutes each day.

My family is not interested in this kind of content, and even my second daughter is scared to leave the living room.

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I knew very well that the land of Japan is like a sheet of styrofoam floating on the water, having read Sakyo Komatsu's "Sinking of Japan.

However, I was surprised to learn from recent research that this "Styrofoam board" is broken into several more pieces (about seven).

In other words, the land of Japan seems to be moving in pieces (not just moving, but rotating and so on).

To begin with, Japan continues to move in centimeters per year, no matter where it is.

We know this from the data from the large number of electronic reference points (GPS observation points) that have been set up around Japan.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen of the National Geographic Institute.

We, the Ebata family is ready to offer our yard as a free place to set up an electronic reference point (I think there may have been some troublesome issues with land acquisition and so on).

If the power is less than 100W, the Ebata family will also pay for the electricity (please do not prepare a back-up power supply).

If you want to use a wired connection, you can use the Ebata family's Internet connection free of charge (but please make sure that the amount of communication does not interfere with the daughters' YouTube viewing).

The condition is that you provide me with one interface to connect the location information of the electronic reference point set up in Ebata's yard to my PC.

Of course, if possible, I would like to have real-time information on all the electronic reference points in Japan, but I think this information is probably "information equivalent to a national secret," so I don't ask you to go that far.

I will be satisfied first of all if I can get real-time movement data of our house.

With that data, I would like to make a "hyperlocal (the Ebata house only) earthquake prediction.

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I think there are probably quite a few engineers in Japan who would be willing to do this (at least two more I know of).

If you have plans to increase the number of electronic reference points, etc., please let me know.