New content from HINAGIKU (62): Digital Archive Map of Disaster Monuments (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED))

July 1st, 2022
New content from the NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (HINAGIKU)

Digital Archive Map of Disaster Monuments (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED))
The Digital Archive Map of Disaster Monuments database is built in collaboration with a number of institutions and provided by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and Kochi University.
This database records the locations of and inscriptions found on monuments that memorialize earthquake and other disasters throughout Japan. Using the map, users are able to locate and to browse monuments on the Web-GIS as well as to view details of the monuments by clicking on the icons on the map.
The monuments cover the Great East Japan earthquake, the 1933 Showa Sanriku earthquake, the 1896 Meiji Sanriku tsunami, and many other natural disasters.
Monuments memorializing earthquakes and volcanos are listed by year and name of disaster, storms and floods are listed by the year and month in which they occurred.

List of data available from Digital Archive Map of Disaster Monuments