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Mitigating earthquakes: Japan - Coggle Diagram
Mitigating earthquakes: Japan
Modifying vunerability
Building design
Aseismic design: e.g. steel frames and braces capable of moving without collapsing.
Rubber shock absorbers in foundations
Very deep foundations into solid rock
Counter weights on roofs which move during earthquakes
Fireproofing old wooden buildings: common in historic districts of Japanese cities.
Research and monitoring
Japan Meteoroligical agency
Monitors earthquakes, volcanoes as well as extreme weather events.
Responsible for providing information and warnings of impeding earthquakes and tsunamis.
Warning systems
Tsunami warning systems off the coast
Community preparedness
Education systems such as evacuation drills in schools
Modifying loss
Well rehearsed recovery and reconstruction plans, at a national and a global level, can be actioned immediately following an earthquake.
The aim is to rebuild physically, economically, and socially as quickly as possible.
Conclusion
Japans strategies to mitigate the exposure, vunerability and loss are constantly being updated.
Industries and businesses and families tend to have the resources that give them a high degree of resilience.
By contrast, EDCs and LIDCs have fewer resources, so the impacts of earthquakes in the short term are more serious, and longer lasting.