A Disaster Support System for View Point Research about Japan Earthquake Insurance Problems

Using Service-Based Geographical Information System to Support Earthquake Research and Disaster Response

As earthquake research has expanded beyond the geophysics community to include the requirements of rapid emergency response and disaster management, the computational infrastructure that supports this research must also expand to deliver both data and analysis tools to a wide variety of users. In this article, we investigate service-based Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies that ...

Fuzzy sets form A meta-system-theoretic point of view

The Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster and cardiovascular diseases.

AIMS While previous studies reported a short-term increase in individual cardiovascular disease (CVD) after great earthquakes, mid-term occurrences of all types of CVDs after great earthquakes are unknown. We addressed this important issue in our experience with the Great East Japan Earthquake (11 March 2011). METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively examined the impact of the Earthquake on the...

Towards an Integrated Earthquake Disaster Simulation System

This paper introduces the overall structure of an integrated earthquake disaster simulation system which is being developed under five year Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas supported by the MEXT of Japan. This project aims to connect in a unity more than a dozen of simulators for individual natural phenomena and human activities involved in a big urban earthquak...

Development of the Japanese National Disaster Medical System and Experiences during the Great East Japan Earthquake

After the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the Japanese national disaster medical system (NDMS) was developed. It mainly consists of four components, namely, a disaster base hospital, an emergency medical information system, a disaster medical assistance team (DMAT), and national aeromedical evacuation (AE). The NDMS was tested for the first time in a real disaster situation during the G...