Earthquakes

Summarizes the mechanism and an earthquake occurs, and the action to be taken when an earthquake occurs. In addition, due to the Great East Japan Earthquake I prepared the content of the pictures and videos to learn the damage.

Damage situation in Ibaraki Prefecture

You will be able to browse visually we have collected, the circumstances of the damage related to the Great East Japan Earthquake in Ibaraki Prefecture.

Damage situation of the Tohoku district

You will be able to view the video.

Types of earthquake

For information about the types of earthquake

The strength of an earthquake

About the magnitude and intensity

Earthquake precursor

About natural phenomena that occur just before the earthquake

P-Wave and S-wave, aftershock

About their relationship and how it works

Behavior when the earthquake occurred

Point and its actions to be taken in the event of a seismic occurrence

Evacuation to a place of refuge

Timing and location of evacuation

Earthquake occurs while driving

What to do if an earthquake occurs while driving

Declaration of vigilance

The correspondence of how to aggregate the information and transportation