Title :
Information and Communication Network Infrastructure Based on Experiences from Noto-hanto-oki Earthquake
Author :
Miyakawa, Akihiro ; Shibata, Yoshitaka
Author_Institution :
Inf. Policy Div. of Nanao City, Nanao
Abstract :
March 25, 2007. The Noto Peninsula offing Wajima city 11 km depth of 40 km of west-south-west magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred nearby. Damage occurred in about 15,000 households in the house including a part of 1 dead, 359 injured persons, destruction due to this earthquake. The Meteorological Agency named this earthquake a NOTO Peninsula Earthquake in 2007. In NANAO City with the earthquake, the transformation of the landform and a liquefaction phenomenon are observed and a maximum of about 41 cm protuberance is admitted from Shika-town from the leveling result to Wajima City. In this paper influence which the information and communication infrastructure undergoes by the earthquake and a problem in the future are described.
Keywords :
earthquakes; geographic information systems; information networks; Noto Peninsula; Noto-hanto-oki earthquake; Wajima city; communication network infrastructure; information network infrastructure; liquefaction phenomenon; Application software; Cellular phones; Cities and towns; Communication networks; Earthquakes; Information science; Local government; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Telephony; disaster;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009. WAINA '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bradford
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3999-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3639-2
DOI :
10.1109/WAINA.2009.133
