An earthquake alarm

(3 days ago)

Suddenly a strange sound sang out when I was working, A strange sound rang out while I was working, and right after that, there was an announcement that a big earthquake is was coming soon.

Actually we We actually have training for the big earthquakes twice a year, so we hesitated, wondering if this was the training, or the a real earthquake.
We put on a helmets, but nobody could move go anywhere .
I asked my boss "Is this the a real alarm?". He said "Yes", and turned pale with fear, but he was not able to direct anything.

Nothing happened here after all, it the earthquake happened in another prefecture.

I hope we can get back to a peaceful life as soon as possible.

(You have great english skills, you just need to practice your grammar and sentence structure a bit! Well done!)

An earthquake alarm

(3 days ago)

Suddenly a strange sound sang (rang) out when I was working, and right after that (there) was an announcement that a big earthquake was coming soon.

Actually we have training for the big earthquake twice a year, so we were not sure if this was the training or a real earthquake.
We put on our helmets but nobody could move.
I asked my boss " Is this the real alarm? " . He said " Yes " and turned pale with fear, but he was not able to direct anything.

Nothing happened here after all; it happened in another prefecture.

I hope we can get back to a peaceful life as soon as possible.



The meaning of the two underlined phrases is not clear:  my first interpretation was that it must be extremely alarming when you get an earthquake warning, so everyone was apprehensive.  Is that right?