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Unreinforced masonry is one of the most popular construction materials in the world. It is also unfortunately, the most vulnerable against earthquakes. Damage to unreinfo [...]
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Japan entered an expected longstanding depopulation process in 2006. In this situation, it is important to avoid disaster social impacts due to the disaster by guiding po [...]
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Meguro, Kimiro
On October 1st 2007, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) started disclosing Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) information to the general public. Although this information [...]
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Meguro, Kimiro
Masonry structures are widely used due to its low cost and construction easiness especially in developing countries. In spite of the efforts to provide guidelines for the [...]
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To reduce earthquake damage in the future, it is very important that each of us take proper countermeasures on our own initiative. After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, strengt [...]
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Past earthquakes have shown that the collapse of seismically weak adobe/masonry structures is responsible for most of the fatalities in developing countries. It is, thus, [...]
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The ideal disaster management measures are to be conducted by property balancing the following three measures: “Disaster Mitigation” or efforts to prevent hazards fro [...]
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Road information sharing is vital in disaster response, but it still remains today a significant problem in spite of the recent breakthrough of information and communicat [...]
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In the field of protecting small children in the event of disasters, there are various problems such as many seismic-vulnerable facilities and miscommunication among conc [...]
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