Railway Structure Damage to the East Japan Railway Company by the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami

Autor: Shin-ichiro Nozawa, Hiroto Suzuki, Torajiro Fujiwara, Susumu Mafune
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Disaster Research. 8:635-642
ISSN: 1883-8030
1881-2473
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2013.p0635
Popis: The huge tsunami generated by a 9.0 Mw earthquake (off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake) and centered off the coast of Sanriku, Tohoku, on March 11, 2011, damaged 7 lines of the East Japan Railway Company. Bridge girders were swept away, piers were broken or tipped, and embankments and station buildings were swept away. This paper reports typical examples of railway structure damage due to this tsunami.
Databáze: OpenAIRE