Elucidating Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena Based on Japanese Historical and Archaeological Data

Abstract

Historical Resources and Archaeology Research Group, the Coordinating Committee of Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Prediction Researches is a collaboration of seismology, history, archaeology, and information science scholars to examine, analyze, and create databases of historical and archaeological materials that record information on earthquakes and other disasters. This study describes the creation of databases of historical earthquake information in earthquake historical documents and that of historical disaster information in buried cultural properties. Further, it elucidates the analyses of historical Nankai Trough earthquakes using GIS, historical earthquakes using chronicles, the 1804 Kisakata earthquake using historical documents and pictorial records, and disaster factors using this database.