5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
[G01-P04] The 22nd Children's Summer School on Seismology, Volcanology, and Geology in Hiratsuka, Japan
★Invited Papers
Keywords:the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, activities in nature, Hiratsuka, earth science, Children's Summer School on Seismology, Volcanology, and Geology
The 22nd Children's Summer School on Seismology, Volcanology, and Geology in Hiratsuka, Japan was held on August 17th and 18th 2023 in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa, organized by the Geological Society of Japan, the Volcanological Society of Japan, and the Seismological Society of Japan. The theme of the event was “blessings of the sea and the mystery of the earthquake”.
2023 is the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Because the Shonan area including Hiratsuka City facing Sagami Bay located in the focal area of the 1923 earthquake, it was selected as the venue of this event. The 1923 earthquake occurred along the subducting plate boundary extending into Sagami Bay, where large earthquakes have recurred and future seismic and tsunami hazards are assumed. On the other hand, such a tectonic situation produced many charms to Hiratsuka City as the unique geomorphological and the geological features. Based on these backgrounds, the aim of the event was to understand the geological features, lives of people there, city planning and disaster prevention in Hiratsuka City.
The participants of the event, 37 elementary school, junior high school, and high school students interested in earth science and activities in nature, came from not only Hiratsuka City but all over Japan. For nurturing young staff, university students and young researchers took place as the staff.
The participants divided into 6 groups experienced many experiments and fieldwork together with researchers and considered two themes: the history of the earthquake and topography in Hiratsuka City, and the lives in Hiratsuka City in another 100 years. They found evidence for the earth’s activities in the landscape and researched its evolution. On the first day, participants visited the Terugasaki coast and the upland of Shonandaira, and observed topography and its components on the exposure. After the fieldwork, they conducted three experiments about the depositional process, the model of submarine topography, and the formation of accretionary prisms in Hiratsuka City Museum. On the second day, they looked around the fishing port in Hiratsuka City and ate seafood caught in Sagami Bay. Also, they observed the trace of liquefaction due to the 1923 earthquake and visited the disaster headquarters of Hiratsuka City.
Each group of participants presented the results through their work for considering two themes of the event in the forum held on the second day of the event, and on September 30th in National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Their presentations proposed many unique ideas, such as the hypothesis of the relationship between the plate boundary and the topography of Hiratsuka City, the new idea about disaster prevention that would be done in daily life, and the leisure program that makes people enjoy the nature of Hiratsuka.
On August 7th to 8th 2024, the 23rd School Children's Summer Course on Seismology, Volcanology, and Geology in River Yoshino, Japan will be held in Miyoshi City, Tokushima, Japan.
2023 is the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Because the Shonan area including Hiratsuka City facing Sagami Bay located in the focal area of the 1923 earthquake, it was selected as the venue of this event. The 1923 earthquake occurred along the subducting plate boundary extending into Sagami Bay, where large earthquakes have recurred and future seismic and tsunami hazards are assumed. On the other hand, such a tectonic situation produced many charms to Hiratsuka City as the unique geomorphological and the geological features. Based on these backgrounds, the aim of the event was to understand the geological features, lives of people there, city planning and disaster prevention in Hiratsuka City.
The participants of the event, 37 elementary school, junior high school, and high school students interested in earth science and activities in nature, came from not only Hiratsuka City but all over Japan. For nurturing young staff, university students and young researchers took place as the staff.
The participants divided into 6 groups experienced many experiments and fieldwork together with researchers and considered two themes: the history of the earthquake and topography in Hiratsuka City, and the lives in Hiratsuka City in another 100 years. They found evidence for the earth’s activities in the landscape and researched its evolution. On the first day, participants visited the Terugasaki coast and the upland of Shonandaira, and observed topography and its components on the exposure. After the fieldwork, they conducted three experiments about the depositional process, the model of submarine topography, and the formation of accretionary prisms in Hiratsuka City Museum. On the second day, they looked around the fishing port in Hiratsuka City and ate seafood caught in Sagami Bay. Also, they observed the trace of liquefaction due to the 1923 earthquake and visited the disaster headquarters of Hiratsuka City.
Each group of participants presented the results through their work for considering two themes of the event in the forum held on the second day of the event, and on September 30th in National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Their presentations proposed many unique ideas, such as the hypothesis of the relationship between the plate boundary and the topography of Hiratsuka City, the new idea about disaster prevention that would be done in daily life, and the leisure program that makes people enjoy the nature of Hiratsuka.
On August 7th to 8th 2024, the 23rd School Children's Summer Course on Seismology, Volcanology, and Geology in River Yoshino, Japan will be held in Miyoshi City, Tokushima, Japan.