The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Disaster Prevention Council held its first meeting to review the damage assumptions of the Tokyo metropolitan earthquake.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will review the damage assumptions of the Tokyo metropolitan earthquake, which is estimated to kill about 10,000 people due to the collapse of buildings and fires caused by an earthquake with a maximum seismic intensity of 7.
The earthquake subcommittee of the disaster prevention council of the city, which is in charge of the work, held its first meeting online on the 1st, and eight experts attended. bottom.
Professor Emeritus Naoshi Hirata of the University of Tokyo, who serves as the chairman of the department, pointed out that large-scale earthquakes have occurred nationwide in the last few years alone, and that earthquakes have also occurred in large cities such as Osaka.
After that, he said, "It is necessary to thoroughly consider measures to prevent disasters from falling behind, and we would like to proceed with discussions while paying attention to how they can be used for earthquake disaster prevention."
This time, we will also review the assumptions of damage caused by the huge earthquake and tsunami that occur near the "Nankai Trough" on the Pacific coast.