Due to the impact of this earthquake, elevators in hotels and condominium commercial buildings have stopped one after another in Ibaraki Prefecture, and according to one of the management companies, about 2,600 elevators, which is more than half of the elevators managed in the prefecture immediately after the earthquake. Is stopped.
At a 13-story business hotel in front of JR Hitachi Station in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the elevator stopped immediately after the earthquake.
The elevator was then restored around 3 am.
When NHK interviewed multiple elevator management companies in Mito City, it was reported that there were a number of cases in the prefecture where elevators in hotels and condominium commercial buildings stopped due to safety devices being activated.
According to the Hitachi Building Systems branch, immediately after the earthquake, 2,600 of the approximately 5,000 elevators in the prefecture under management stopped.
It means that there is no communication such as "a person was trapped in the elevator".
In this company, but by, for example, to send the employees we are the elevator of the restoration work, is that prospect that all can recover is not standing.
A person in charge of Hitachi Building Systems said, "It is the first time in Ibaraki Prefecture that an elevator has stopped on such a scale since the Great East Japan Earthquake."