Abstract
After a disaster, society shifts back from exceptional and non-daily life to daily life. Insofar as the disaster is a major one, the shift back to everyday life is considered to be a one-time event. Nevertheless, we must think and plan the sociology of the disaster as being a description of a possibly frequently-recurring event, and not as the description of a one-time occurrence. The seismologist and the sociologist each have a big role to play in this activity, considering the different matters by which they were struck. However, we must not regard this as consisting merely of the thoughts of the individual researcher. Circumstances divide our life into time "before the event" and "after the event". In this case, there have been many results produced by the things "before and after" which impressed the various specialists. At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake disaster, this phenomenon was not seen. The results produced, and the things they noted, play the same role as remembrance of the disaster. It is important that we keep in mind both "before the event" and "after the event" to preserve the memory of an earthquake disaster.
