Many people were evacuated by heavy and many aftershocks when the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake occurred in 2004. Especially, Child raising families had more many difficulties for evacuation behavior. Therefore, this paper shows the results of a survey on awareness and action of the earthquake. To clarify the characteristics of the evacuation behavior by parents with children, and examine the role of disaster management in the future based on the results.
This paper examines the community recovery assistance and reconstruction process after the 921 earthquake in Taiwan. Tuniu district in Shiukang village was used as a case study to investigate the reconstruction process, and indicated there are distinct phases in the recovery process; (i) state of confusion after the earthquake, (ii) building trusting relationships among residents and experts and creating incentives for community reconstruction, (iii) searching ways to community reconstructing by residents and experts, (iv) building networks and infiltrating residents, and (v) community management by residents' reliance. The implications of these findings for recovery assistance are discussed.
It is an introduction of the project that each organization cooperated as one of the restoration and revival support activities from the Chuetsu Earthquake. Data about the damage situation that the government and local governments or associated organizations owned were unified by GIS technology, and it was shown as a portal site on the Internet. The data input process was done outside the damaged area. These data were offered to the damaged area, and only practical use was expected. The effectiveness was shown as one of the methods of restoration and revival support by activity of the project.
This Paper is report of Chuetsu Earthquake disaster in 2004, in Niigata Prefecture, on the characteristics of disaster, from comparative view of Hanshin Great Earthquake in 1995. This earthquake occurred in the evening of Autumn as the second earthquake of seismic intensity 7 in Japan and hit mainly mountain villages of aging society. The firebreak per 1000 collapsed houses are 3 times higher than in Hanshin Earthquake, and the related deaths after earthquake are twice higher than direct deaths per 1000 collapsed houses.