Open AccessNishinomiya Built Environment Database and its Findings
Author(s) -
Kei Horie,
Norio Maki,
H. Hayashi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2007.p0419
Subject(s) - database , government (linguistics) , process (computing) , forensic engineering , disaster mitigation , computer science , civil engineering , engineering , geography , environmental planning , philosophy , linguistics , operating system
We introduce the Nishinomiya Built Environment Database (NBED), which archives digital data on the disaster process from immediately after earthquake through recovery following the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster. Using this database, we discuss findings obtained from analysis of the disaster process: (1) effectiveness of the Building Standard Law, (2) comparison of building damage assessment results, (3) the relationship between fatalities and building collapse, (4) collapse factors among wooden houses, and (5) monument construction process as an index of community recovery. We also demonstrate two applications – (1) the support tool for seismic risk assessment and (2) the training system for building damage assessment for issuing victim certificates. The NBED exhibits that it enables to use to simulate earthquake disaster and social reactions by those responding to disaster in local government and it contributes to establish countermeasures for disaster reduction.