| Kenzo TOKI / Professor | |
| department | 1Department of Civil Engineering |
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| specialized field | Earthquake Engineering, Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage Detail information (only in Japanese) |
| classes | undergraduate: Professional Lectures |
| contact | RESEARCH CENTER FOR DESASTER MITIGATION SYSTEMS 2F, TOKI Laboratory toki-k@se.ritsumei.ac.jp |
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| message | Japan is one of the most vulnerable country to earthquake hazard. The earthquake circumstance of Japanese island has been repeated every 100-120 years and this is clarified by historical investigation up to 7th century.It is firmly recognized by seismologists that Japanese archipelago has entered in the active period which will last 50-70 years although Japan wan lucky enough to have had the non-active period of earthquake during the period for pursuing the economic prosperity after the World War II. It is urgent issue for individual person, society and nation to prepare for the coming big earthquake to occur in the Nankai Trough and inland active faults. |
| Earthquake Engineering Lab. | |
| introduction | It is highly anticipated that the earthquakes associated with inland active faults as well as the earthquakes due to the Nankai Trough will take place within the first half of thiscentury. Once an inland active fault is ruptured, the disasters due to the earthquake will be enormous and we learned it through the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. In order to predict the ground motion due to inland earthquake, it is needed to conduct the research taking into account the geological and geographical fine structure of the foot region of surrounding mountains, besides the prediction of strong ground motion considering the physical properties of the faults. In the Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, therefore, the research to increase the reliability of the analyses mentioned above has been conducted and also it is main subject of laboratory to conduct the research work for establishment of the countermeasures to protect the cultural heritage from natural disaster, particularly from the post-quake fire.
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| location | RESEARCH CENTER FOR DESASTER MITIGATION SYSTEMS 2F |
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