SNS information in the event of a flood, etc. Websites shown on maps such as videos will be released November 8th, 5:21
This is a new initiative to save a lot of damage information posted on SNS when a flood occurs and use it for future disaster prevention.
Tohoku University and others have created a special website that shows posted videos and images of flood damage on a map, and started publishing it on the 8th.
The initiative was carried out by the Tohoku University International Research Institute for Disaster Science in cooperation with a company that develops news apps, and images and videos of inundation damage posted on Twitter during Typhoon No. 19 last year and the heavy rain in July of this year were posted. , It is shown on the Internet map for each place of occurrence.
There are about 12,000 images and videos, including many "inland floods" where drainage cannot keep up with heavy rain and flooding occurs one after another, and the area around Musashi-Kosugi Station in Kawasaki City, which was flooded by Typhoon No. 19 last year. There are pictures of Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture, which was flooded by the heavy rain in July.
In particular, unlike the flooding of rivers, it is difficult to leave traces of "inland flooding" when water is drained, and it is difficult to verify the damage after that. Tohoku University and others use this information to use this information to local governments and local governments. I want them to be useful for disaster prevention of residents.
Associate Professor Shosuke Sato of the International Research Institute for Disaster Science, Tohoku University said, "Inland waters are difficult to notice because the water level rises in an invisible underground space, unlike river floods. I want you to know in advance where flooding is likely to occur and use it for disaster prevention like a hazard map. "