SENDAI -Towards a Disaster-Resilient and Environmentally-Friendly City
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List of "Priorities 1 Understanding disaster risk"
To prepare for future disasters, it is important to understand and learn about the lessons and knowledge from past disasters or regarding disaster risk reduction. We also need to use a variety of networks and means, and to promote the collection and sharing of disaster risk reduction-related information.
- Sendai Crisis Management Twitter Account
- Disaster information, evacuation information, earthquake and tsunami information and notifications are tweeted on our...
- Target 6 Strengthening International Cooperation
- Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, Sendai City has been sharing our restoration efforts, the experiences we gained, and lessons we learned...
- Disaster Prevention Administration Radio
- Sendai’s disaster prevention administration radio can be broadly split into two types. A tsunami information transmission ...
- Emergency Alert E-Mails
- During large-scale disasters we send “emergency alert e-mails” with evacuation information published by the city to the ...
- Sendai Evacuation Information Website
- We have been running this website since 2016 to provide Sendai citizens with evacuation information during emergencies in an ...
- Sendai Tsunami Information Conveyance System
- Sendai broadcasts tsunami warnings and evacuation information from the 79 outdoor speakers placed in tsunami evacuation... .
- Distribution of Hazard Maps
- Sendai City created three types of earthquake hazard maps in 2008. The first is a “Tremor Map” that...
- Promotion of Sendai’s Disaster Prevention Education
- In order to convey lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake to children in the...
- Investigation and Research Conducted by the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University
- The International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University was established in April 2012, one year after the disaster ...
- Tsunami Evacuation Announcement Drone Operation
- As some of those giving directions for evacuation at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake lost their lives, and considering the necessity of expanding and...
- Initiatives to Pass on
- The City maintains an organizational climate in which the experiences and lessons learned from the disaster live on...
- Publishing of “Sendai City’s Five-year Record of Recovery from the Disaster” and “Great East Japan Earthquake - Road to Recovery SENDAI”
- The City has published a detailed record, “Sendai City’s Five-year Record of Recovery from the Disaster”, which describes the initiatives for recovery, reconstruction...