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Xu Wang, Hu Kong, Guoliang Zhang and Peng Zhao
It is of great practical importance to study the vibration response characteristics of super high-rise buildings under an earthquake action to provide a basis for seismic design and later maintenance of structures in coastal areas. During this study, the...
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Nguyen Xuan Tinh, Hitoshi Tanaka, Xiping Yu and Guangwei Liu
In this study, the tsunami-induced bottom boundary layer was investigated based on actual waveforms obtained by the GPS buoys along the coast of the Tohoku region during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami. The k-? model was utilized for the num...
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Yoshimichi Yamamoto, Yuji Kozono, Erick Mas, Fumiya Murase, Yoichi Nishioka, Takako Okinaga and Masahide Takeda
The aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004 triggered by the off Sumatra earthquake (magnitude ?M? = 9.1), and the Great East Japan earthquake of 11 March 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku (M = 9.0), evidence the secondary damage fro...
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Sunkyung Choi and Shinya Hanaoka
Air transportation is especially critical to the immediate response that must be provided after a natural disaster strikes a region. Airport operations are hindered by fluctuating waiting times across different operation types because of bottlenecks caus...
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Joshua Macabuag, Tiziana Rossetto, Ioanna Ioannou and Ian Eames
Catastrophe models quantify potential losses from disasters, and are used in the insurance, disaster-risk management, and engineering industries. Tsunami fragility and vulnerability curves are key components of catastrophe models, providing probabilistic...
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Kei Yamashita, Anawat Suppasri, Yusuke Oishi and Fumihiko Imamura
To evaluate tsunami hazards with strong locality in urban areas, this study developed a novel tsunami inundation model based on nonlinear shallow water wave equations and a porous body model (PBM). By applying a kinematic boundary condition that includes...
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Mari Yasuda, Toshiaki Muramoto and Rui Nouchi
In this research, a visiting class on disaster preparedness education for higher-grade elementary school students (10?11 years old) was conducted in Wakayama prefecture, which is exposed to Nankai Trough earthquakes, and in different parts of the three p...
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Masatsugu Orui, Yuka Ueda, Yuriko Suzuki, Masaharu Maeda, Tetsuya Ohira, Hirooki Yabe and Seiji Yasumura
This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the prevalence of newly-started drinkers and their continuing drinking behaviors after the Great East Japan earthquake. Moreover, the relationships between newly-started drinking and psychological factor, disa...
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Kenji Ono, Jun Tatsumi, Takeyoshi Nakao
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During the east Japan great earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, long distance ferry engaging in the coastal linking of east Japan area demonstrated their high seaworthiness against the tsunami waves. For the initial response operations for...
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Takaya Nagai, Yoshihiro Kumamoto, Yutaka Ooguchi, Yasuyuki Yamaguchi, Yasushi Sumita
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BRT(Bus Rapid Transit) has been provided as a temporary transport restoration project in the wake of the damage by tsunami accompanying the Great East Japan Earthquake, as much time would be required to restore lines to their original state. Issues inclu...
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