平成18年(2006年)5月27日ジャワ島中部地震被害調査速報

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A heavy earthquake hit Yogyakarta province on May 27, 2006, at 5: 54am (local time). More than 5,000 people died and more than 140,000 housings were completely destroyed due to the earthquake. Kobe University: Graduate School of Medicine, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security and the 21st COE "Design Strategy towards Safety and Symbiosis of Urban Space", sent a team to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The missions imposed to the team were 1) to support and assist the faculty of medicine, Gadjah Mada University at Yogyakarta, in the emergency medical care, and 2) to investigate the earthquake damages from the engineering viewpoint and obtain the basic information necessary for the following investigation teams which Kobe University would send. Herein, reported is the investigation results which this adovance team obtained, from the engineering viewpoint. Most casualties were due to the collapse of brick-built housings in which bricks were connected using lime and sand mixture without mortar. The damages of infrastructures such as roads, bridges and irrigation facilities were not heavy by comparison with the damages of brick-built housings. In this report, these damages due to the earthquake are shown using photographs taken at the site.
2006-08-31