Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2021

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[O-02] Natural disasters and people -Listen to the voice of the Earth on the Japanese Geoparks-

Sun. Jun 6, 2021 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Ch.02

convener:Noritaka Matsubara(Graduate School of Regional Resource Management, University of Hyogo), Kyohei Sano(Graduate School of Regional Resource Management, University of Hyogo), Suzuka Koriyama(Itoigawa city), Hikaru Yokoyama(Hokusho University)

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

[O02-P18] Let's investigate the earth activity from Shimonita Geopark

*Hara Hideo1 (1.Geopark Shimonita council)

Keywords:Geodiversity, Geotourism, Education of Geology, Geopark, education for disaster prevention

Intro
The Shimonita town of Southwest Gunma is the town which is full of located nature. Shimonita basin is a plateau of Shinshu and a basin in during Kanto plains.It is two major special products such as "Shimonita-negi" and the konjac.
Shimonita-machi is the place that ever prospered as a course linking Edo to Shinshu.It is dotted with industrial inheritances using nature, the topography in a town.For examle,world helitage Arfune colad strage.It is one of the Japanese Geoparks that are 43 places in Japan.Typhoon Hagibis in 2019, It brought the damage such as floods in our area.The guide of the Shimonita Geopark tells the lesson of the flood in a guided tour.I discuss it about the story of the Shimonita Geopark and guide who introduce the lesson of the disaster by the main subject.

Three stories of Shimonita Geopark
Story.1
Great upheavals from the bottom of the sea to the land
Story.2 The ancient volcanic activity that separated plateau and Kanto plains
Story.3 The town of the course along the median tectonic line


Geopark Promoting activity and Disaster Resilience Education
We work on guide tourism, school education, disaster prevention education, activation of the local industry. The guide conveys an activity of the dynamic earth from nature of Shimonita. The typhoon Hagibis in caused a flood and changed the scenery. The guide tells a photograph and the damage situation at the time of the flooding in the case of the typhoon. And they convey about nature's wrath behind the scenery of beautiful nature to a tour visitor.
A tour visitor understands nature through this activity definitely, and we hope that it comes to be prepared for a disaster.