Hi everyone, welcome to a new episode of News Bites!

I'm Kelly Kimura…

And I'm Paz Bueno.

Coming up next in today's news:

Two high school students have made earthquake apps, and a woman looks for the man who saved her son!

And in today's Tasty Tidbit…a Japanese train conductor loves Taiwan!

Stay tuned for more on those stories!

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兩名台灣青少年 創造了兩款大受歡迎的地震預警應用程式

Two Taiwanese Teens Made Two Popular Earthquake Alert Apps

Earthquakes have been on everyone's minds - and under everyone's feet - in Taiwan since April 3rd.

But two high school students have been thinking about earthquakes longer than that.

And they've done more than think.

They have both made earthquake alert apps (地震警報應用程式).

But wait - doesn't the Central Weather Administration (中央氣象署) - the CWA - send earthquake alerts?

Yes, but it only sends alerts for earthquakes that are above magnitude (規模) five and reach level (震度) four on Taiwan's 7- level scale (測量).

We can feel earthquakes that aren't as strong.

Lin Ruei (林睿), a 17-year-old student at Fudan High School in Taoyuan, is co-founder of the DPIP Earthquake Alert System (DPIP地震速報系統).

DPIP stands for "Disaster Prevention Information Platform."

Lin Ruei and the rest of the team of about 15 people set up their own "Taiwan Real-time Earthquake Monitoring" system.

They put 136 homemade earthquake monitors on the east coast!

The app uses information from these monitors and the CWA.

Another app, Taiwan Earthquake Quick Alert (臺灣地震速報), became the most popular free app in Taiwan after the earthquake.

Eighteen-year-old Lin Tzu-yu (林子祐), a student at Kang Chiao International School's Xiugang (秀岡) Campus in New Taipei City, made it.

His app gets earthquake information from the CWA.

We can choose to get early warnings (預警) for Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hualien, or Yilan.

We can also choose the earthquake level.

Lin Tzu-yu had not made an app before.

He found out how to make one from YouTube.

He said he didn't realize that he could do something useful for society without being guided by teachers.

即使地震警報僅在地震發生前幾秒鐘發出，也夠讓您趕快去到更安全的地方。

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媽媽尋找救了她兒子的男人

Woman Looks for the Man Who Saved Her Son

A woman and her four-year-old son went to an ice hockey game (冰上曲棍球比賽).

Her son was tired and moved around a lot in his seat.

A young man they didn't know was sitting next to the boy.

The end of the game was near. It was exciting!

Then an ice hockey puck (曲棍球餅) flew out of the ice rink (溜冰場) and over a glass barrier (玻璃屏障)!

Oh!

It flew fast toward (向) the little boy!

Oh no!

The man next to the boy jumped up.

He leaned over (倚靠) the boy.

He stopped the puck with his hand… just before the puck could hit the boy's head!

Thank goodness!

The little boy had little pieces of ice in his hair! The puck dropped to his seat.

The woman was shocked (很震驚).

She thanked the man and took a picture of him and her son.

The little boy didn't know that he had almost been badly hurt.

He was just very, very happy that he got to keep the puck!

Later at home, the woman held the puck.

It was very heavy… It was heavier than a baseball.

She couldn't sleep that night.

She kept thinking about how the man saved her young son's life.

She didn't know his name, but she wanted to find him and thank him again.

So she made a video and posted it online (把影片po上網).

In the video, she talked about what had happened.

She also said there had been an empty (空的) seat on the other side of the man.

It was also the man's seat, but he hadn't moved away from her son.

She said the man told her he was meant to be there (命中注定會在那裡).

At the end of the video, the woman asked people to let her know if they knew the man.

Eight hours later, the man sent her a message (訊息)!

The ice hockey team saw the video too.

They invited the woman, her son, and the man to drop the puck (放下曲棍球餅) at the start of the next game!

這個四歲的男孩很幸運，有一個好心人救了他，讓他沒有被曲棍球餅擊中。

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So in today's News Bites:

Two Taiwanese high school students made two earthquake alert apps.

The apps let us know about earthquakes just before they happen.

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And…

A man saved a woman's son from being hit by an ice hockey puck.

She wanted to find him and thank him again, but she didn't know his name.

So she made a video about what had happened and posted it online.

And she found him!

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趣味小點

Tasty Tidbit

And in today's Tasty Tidbit…

If you take a train in Yamagata, Japan, you might meet a friendly train conductor.

His name is Shunichi Inoue.

He loves having visitors from Taiwan on his train.

He said "Taiwan No. 1!" to a group of tourists.

He has a big Taiwan flag (旗幟), and he held it up in the train.

He made a little heart with two fingers and said "揪咪揪咪!"

When he left the train, he said, "再見再見!"

He didn't leave the station. He held up the flag outside of the train.

He does these things because Taiwan helped Japan during the COVID pandemic and after a very bad earthquake in 2011!

If you see him, say "hello" - oh, I mean "你好!"

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