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Practical use of the Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system for Shinkansen

Last updated on 04 February 2013 12:20

Japan is a distinguished country of earthquake occurrence in the world. 100,000 earthquakes or more are recorded every year according to the published data of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). This means that about 300 or more earthquakes occur per a day on average somewhere in Japan. According to the...

Author(s): Shinji SATO;Kimitoshi Ashiya;Shunroku YAMAMOTO;Naoyasu IWATA;Masahiro KORENAGA;Shunta NODA

Organisation(s): Railway Technical Research Institute ;

2011

Japan

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