Tsunami Damage Survey

Course Description

Characteristics of tsunami damages are introduced through examples of post-tsunami survey results. Survey method is explained with the theory. After explanations for matters to be attended in field survey, survey exercise is conducted.

Lecturer

Yoshinori SHIGIHARA

Days

1 day(s)

Syllabus

(1) Examples of tsunami damages
1)
Human damage
2)
Structure
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Building
-
Bri
dge
3)
Fishery and agriculture
4)
Environment
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Coast
al erosion
-
Spread of oil


(2) Survey method and the theory

1)
Camera and GPS
2)
Level survey
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Equipment
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Field note
3)
Tide-level correction


(3) Matters to be attended in field survey

1)
Variety of tsunami trace
2)
Selection of tsunami trace
3)
Reliability


(4) Exercise

Lecture note files of this course can be downloaded.