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

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

873

Lastpage

878

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2009.133

Filename

5136760