2025 Volume 81 Issue 13 Article ID: 24-13494
The Noto Peninsula earthquake that occurred on New Year’s Day, 2024, caused various kinds of damage. In particular, liquefaction and tsunami disasters in coastal areas are important issues, but they are discussed separately, and there is little awareness of the fact that they are phenomena that occur in succession. In this paper, we present the characteristics of past earthquakes, investigate liquefaction damage in the Noto Peninsula earthquake, present the results of interviews regarding roadblocks to evacuation on sand boil, and conduct experiments on road movement covered by sand fountains, which may be an obstacle during tsunami evacuation, to understand the reduction in evacuation speed. The results also showed that the speed of evacuation was reduced by the movement of the road covered by the sand boil.
