Open AccessSpatial Exposure Analysis on Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake Disaster
Author(s) -
Shingo Suzuki,
H. Hayashi
Publication year - 2010
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.2010.p0045
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , population , geography , socioeconomic status , government (linguistics) , critical infrastructure , environmental science , environmental health , computer science , computer security , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
An anticipated Tokyo metropolitan earthquake is expected to cause enormous damage due to its high population, building, and infrastructure concentration — an occurrence further causing significant social and economic loss due to its highly concentrated government and economic functions. Taking a general view of this potential disaster, we calculate socioeconomic and critical infrastructure exposure andmap their distribution to quantify this exposure and its concentration in affected regions.