Surveys on Post-earthquake Fires after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

• HIROI U

  The University of Tokyo

• IWAMI Tatsuya

  Building Research Institute

• TAKANASHI Naruko

  The Institute of Disaster Policy & Information Society

• HIMOTO Keisuke

  National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management

• HOKUGO Akihiko

  Kobe University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 2016年熊本地震に伴って発生した地震火災に関する調査
• 2016ネン クマモト ジシン ニ トモナッテ ハッセイ シタ ジシン カサイ ニ カンスル チョウサ

Abstract

We investigated post-earthquake fires that occurred in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. As a result, we found 18 post-earthquake fires occurred in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Fires in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake were caused mainly at electric wiring devices and power supply units for emergency. In addition, this survey shows that hindrances to firefighting operations or heavy damage of buildings caused by earthquake resulted in heavy fire damage. The ignition rate was lower than that of the Great East Japan Earthquake. In the Kumamoto earthquake, two initial fire extinguishing cases were successful, but the success rate of the initial fire extinguishing is not so high.

Journal

• Bulletin of Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering

  Bulletin of Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering 70 (1), 27-33, 2020-04-30

  Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering

Keywords

• Questionnaire Survey
• Post-earthquake fire
• The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

Details

• CRID: 1390571395582850944
• NII Article ID: 130008112002
• NII Book ID: AN0018688X
• DOI: 10.11196/kasai.70.1_27
• ISSN: 18835600
• ISSN: 05460794
• NDL BIB ID: 030430628
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/030430628
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I030430628
• Text Lang: ja
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