9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
[G01-01] How the disaster prevention education should be as based on the disastrousness by the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
★Invited Papers
Keywords:The 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Disaster Prevention Education
The Noto Peninsula earthquake that occurred at 16:10 (Japan Standard Time) on January 1, 2024 gave us various lessons about a policy of our future disaster prevention education. In this presentation, the author examined what and how the proper information about the possible danger through the geoscientific matters should be provided in advance to the residents. This is also of great importance and of great use for disaster prevention in other areas in the future. The author examined the following issues in order to verify whether enough information for the disaster had been provided and whether the public was aware of the possible dander in their residential area.
1. Known regional tectonics of the eastern edge of the Japan Sea from far north towards Toyama Bay just off the east of Noto Peninsula, which is assumed to be a plate convergent boundary between North American (or Okhotsk) and Eurasian (or Amur) Plates.
2. Existence of five submarine active faults off the northern coast of the Noto Peninsula, and their activities, possible earthquake and tsunami hazards.
3. Maintenance of regional and local hazard maps: whether sufficient and adequate information of the possible hazard was supplied in advance to the residents.
4. Presence of terraces on the northern part of the Noto Peninsula, which might be constructed by an uplift of convergent-type earthquakes in the past.
5. Collapse of wooden house along the northern coast of the peninsula, and its relationship with the proper frequency of the tremor by the concerned earthquake.
6. Reliability of the existing hazard maps of liquefaction
In conclusion, valuable survey data and their interpretation were in the hands of several experts and could not be widely utilized by the public through disaster prevention education. Recently, ‘science interpreters’ who explain experts' latest findings in an easy-to-understand manner to the public are gradually gaining citizenship (especially in the fields of astronomy and space). They are working at museums and sometimes hold a lecture toward the public. Therefore, in the same way as this, ‘disaster prevention interpreter’ is to be requested. His/her tasks will be to follow the knowledge by the experts, to examine the up-to-date research data, to find what sort of information is currently missing, and explain them in an easy-to-understand manner to the public, in order to raise awareness of regional/local disaster prevention.
1. Known regional tectonics of the eastern edge of the Japan Sea from far north towards Toyama Bay just off the east of Noto Peninsula, which is assumed to be a plate convergent boundary between North American (or Okhotsk) and Eurasian (or Amur) Plates.
2. Existence of five submarine active faults off the northern coast of the Noto Peninsula, and their activities, possible earthquake and tsunami hazards.
3. Maintenance of regional and local hazard maps: whether sufficient and adequate information of the possible hazard was supplied in advance to the residents.
4. Presence of terraces on the northern part of the Noto Peninsula, which might be constructed by an uplift of convergent-type earthquakes in the past.
5. Collapse of wooden house along the northern coast of the peninsula, and its relationship with the proper frequency of the tremor by the concerned earthquake.
6. Reliability of the existing hazard maps of liquefaction
In conclusion, valuable survey data and their interpretation were in the hands of several experts and could not be widely utilized by the public through disaster prevention education. Recently, ‘science interpreters’ who explain experts' latest findings in an easy-to-understand manner to the public are gradually gaining citizenship (especially in the fields of astronomy and space). They are working at museums and sometimes hold a lecture toward the public. Therefore, in the same way as this, ‘disaster prevention interpreter’ is to be requested. His/her tasks will be to follow the knowledge by the experts, to examine the up-to-date research data, to find what sort of information is currently missing, and explain them in an easy-to-understand manner to the public, in order to raise awareness of regional/local disaster prevention.