Geographers’ Contribution to Earthquake Disaster Investigations of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Abstract

1. Geographers' investigations just after the occurrence of the Great Kanto Earthquake Disaster

2. Investigations for earthquake disaster measure planning mainly in the 1970s

3. Research for active faults and palaeo-earthquakes

4. Reaearch for landslides and debris flows of the Great Kanto Earthquake Disaster

5. Earthquake disaster research in human geography

6. Recent investigations for earthquake disaster measure planning by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government