Record Details:

SNS (International Disaster Prevention Support Center)

Organization:
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
〒244-0002 Kanagawa Prefecture
Yokohama City
Totsuka Ward Yabe-cho 871-5
Yokohama City, JP 00000

Region:	Asia
County/Parish:	Kanagawa Prefecture

Website: http://www.sns-japan.org/english/index.html

Management Contact: (hidden)

Mission: In recent years, massive earthquakes have happened in the world almost every year and some of these earthquakes claimed tens of thousands of lives. Especially, these earthquakes caused tremendous damages to Asia and other areas surrounding Asia. For example, the earthquakes in Turkey (1999), India (2001), Iran (2003), Indonesia (2004, 2006), and Pakistan (2005) caused tremendous damages beyond all of your imagination.

For example, in Iran, Bam Earthquake (magnitude of 6.3) occurred on December 26, 2003 in southeast of Iran claimed more than forty thousand lives. Moreover, approximately 13 years before Bam Earthquake, Rudbar (areas along the Caspian Sea) Earthquake occurred in 1990 killed approximately twenty thousand people. Thus, during about forty years between 1962 to 2003, the people in Iran had to have experienced five times large earthquakes claimed thousands of people.

According to the research about the cause of earthquake damages in Iran by Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo University in 1991, one of the causes of earthquake damages in Iran between 1962 to 1990 was collapse of fragile and non-engineered buildings. One of the causes of massive damages by Bam earthquake was also recognized fragile and non-engineered buildings by Building Research Institute of Japan. Thus, in Iran, the same cause in every earthquake has claimed so many lives.

In addition, Japan is one of earthquake-prone countries well-known throughout the world and the Great Hansin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 directly hit Kobe metropolitan area and many places around Kobe and killed more than six thousand people. However, we, Japanese, have accumulated some technique, policy, and knowledge for earthquake prevention such as earthquake safer technique for construction suitable for regional characteristics in Japan based on our experiences of the Great Hansin-Awaji Earthquake and others.

We are quite sure that these accumulated technique and knowledge will be very useful for future earthquake prevention in Asia and other areas surrounding Asia, if these technique and knowledge are transferred to the areas over the social and cultural differences. Thus, we are also confident that we can mitigate some future disasters by building up disaster-prevention measures suitable for their regional characteristics.

The mission of SNS International Disaster Prevention Support Center is to support the people in Iran and other areas in Asia for building up their own culture for disaster mitigation. For carrying out the mission, we have analyzed the causes of the damages of some natural disasters such as earthquake in these areas and had some activities for disaster mitigation based on the analysis.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

No 3/11 quake update on site

Info Source/Changes:

Created At: Wed Mar 16 04:34:40 +0000 2011
Updated At: Wed Mar 16 04:34:40 +0000 2011
Updated By: LTel

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