Lesson of the Great East Japan Earthquake

– The Rebuilt of Safety Management in Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University –

Abstract

   On March 11, 2011 at 14:46, a big earthquake hit the northern part of mainland Japan. The 2011 Great East Earthquake brought massive human and infrastructural damage and it was such as devastating event that changed our life. Although nobody injured in the Campus, the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University has been still in process of recovering from the Earthquake despite passed over a year since then.
   We have learned many lessons from the experience. It leads to a change in our awareness about disaster prevention slowly but steadily. This report is about behavior of people on campus in the Earthquake, present situation of campus reconstruction, and problems to be solved.