Design of disaster education program using historical earthquakes and stone lanterns

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12756
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kato Mamoru 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科, 助教 (70335230)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 防災教育 / 地震災害 / 歴史地震

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Large earthquakes topple stone lanterns, which occurred with historical as well as recent earthquakes. Damages of the stone which stand in the precinct of temples and shrines lanterns are thus the records of past ground motions. In this project, we aimed to develop a new disaster education program which aims to heighten awareness of earthquakes using the stone lanterns. We investigated several groups of stone lanterns which were damaged by historical earthquakes, and we also studied how stone lanterns were toppled by recent large earthquakes. From these results, we reconfirmed usefulness of stone lanterns in connecting our experiences and past anecdotes of ground shaking and in heightening the awareness of earthquake disaster. We have designed a framework for an education program which aims to remind participants how severe ground motions of past earthquakes.

Free Research Field

地震学