Quick Report on Damage Investigation of Sanriku Railway Suffered from the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Abstract

        The damage investigation of the damaged area of Sanriku railway and hearing to the Sanriku railway president were executed due to the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake As a result, it extended to whole line and the extensive damage from the storm was confirmed. Moreover, it was able to be confirmed that the Sanriku railway was a necessary, indispensable railway as place along railway-tracks resident and victim’s transportation. However, the way until restoring severity as had it to install more than the imagination and to install the restriction in operation by the disconnection of the large generation mainly of the “Minami Riasu“ line such as the station, the bridge, outflows of the fill and the signal systems etc. were damage became clear. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]