What if the quake that hit Tohoku 10 years ago happened along the Nankai Trough to the south of Japan? Well, experts are predicting this very scenario.
Mar 8, 2021
Manchester – In the 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, scientists have sought answers to a variety of questions relating to the deadly tsunami that began tearing through coastal communities just 15 minutes after the quake.
Researchers have probed how a tsunami gathers height as it nears a shoreline and how this affects the damage it can cause. They’ve also begun to assess technologies for the early detection of tsunamis and improving tsunami observing systems across Japan.
“The speed of a tsunami offshore is the same as a jet airplane and its speed inland similar to Usain Bolt,” says Nobuhito Mori, a professor in the Coastal Disaster Research section of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University.
Q&A With Lisa Goddard on Leadership in Climate Science
Lisa Goddard takes the mic during a workshop. Credit: Elisabeth Gawthrop/IRI
Lisa Goddard’s career at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) stretches back to when the institute was based on the West Coast and some of its scientists surfed on their lunch breaks (we won’t name names…).
Goddard is internationally recognized for her work in climate science, and has held several leadership positions in the field, including a seat on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate at the U.S. National Academies of Science, and a chair position at the World Climate Research Programme’s Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change organization. She has pioneered key research on El Niño and La Niña and is also an adjunct associate professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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New training course helps to better equip health professionals in disaster preparedness and response
A new comprehensive course incorporating an interdisciplinary approach to disaster preparedness shows promise for better equipping health professionals in responding to disasters.
Medical staff and researchers from Tohoku University and Fukushima Medical University organized the program. The two universities are well equipped in disaster response and preparedness given their regions were at the epicenter of the deadly 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Their findings were published in the
Journal of Disaster Research. From the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake, we have learned that disaster medical personnel are required to play the role of conductors in site selection dispatching and on-site activities, said Hiroyuki Sasaki at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, and Tadashi Ishii at the Education and Support for Regional Medicine, Tohoku Unive