Open AccessDevelopment of the Wide-Area Earthquake Damage Estimation System and Mashup of Disaster Prevention Information
Author(s) -
Masafumi Hosokawa,
Kōki Takanashi,
Shoji Doshida,
Mamoru Endo,
Byeong-pyo Jeong
Publication year - 2017
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.2017.p0118
Subject(s) - estimation , emergency management , economic shortage , earthquake warning system , computer science , disaster response , earthquake casualty estimation , agency (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , warning system , computer security , earthquake scenario , civil engineering , engineering , seismic hazard , telecommunications , systems engineering , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
Immediately following an earthquake or other disaster, the crisis management personnel of the national or local government must determine the location of the disaster and its status and quickly carry out response actions such as rescue or fire-fighting operations. However, the congestion of communication lines and shortage of disaster response personnel make it impossible to collate the damage information in the initial response mobilization period immediately following an earthquake, making it difficult to make proper decisions. To assist the decision-making immediately following an earthquake, we developed a Wide-area Earthquake Damage Estimation System, which estimates the earthquake damage based on information from the Meteorological Agency and other agencies and shares the results via email and WebGIS (Web-based Geographic Information System) portal functions. In this paper, we introduce this system and discuss the results of the trial operation.