The National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster has been conducted research concerning assessment of such matters as seismic risk analysis, damage estimates, and the like as well as measures at the time of an earthquake in order to promote countermeasures against earthquake disasters rationally.
The Institute has been conducting research into the latent risks by area of long-period ground motion which causes the sloshing of liquid in oil storage tanks, and evaluation of the extent of influence upon water sup-plies for fire protection.
An oil storange tank fire which broke out during the Niigata earthquake of 1964. The fire was caused by long-period ground motion and continued to burn for about two weeks.
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One of the aims of the Institute has been the efficient operation of fire brigades against earthquake disasters through the development of systems which promptly evaluate the degree of risk of tsunami from seismic wave data, and the establishment of methods of predicting the condition of all fires that occur based on information on fires just after an earthquake.
The National Research Institute of Fire and disaster engages in research concerned with the methods of risk analysis of the occurrence and spread of forest fires in each region along with clarifying from experiments factors that control the occurrence and spread of forest fires.
The Institute conducts research or methods of estimating the degree o: risk of the occurrence of fires in each region based on specific weather conditions and analysis of actual pas: cases of forest fires.
Shows analysis of estimated risk of outbreak of fire from slope angle,direction of slope, wind speed and direction, tree type, humidity, etc. in the subject region.
The Institute aims at those Items which are conducive to the establishment of fire prevention measures that conform with actual regional conditions, and the establishment of simulation methods on spread of a forest fir~ using data on tree types, terrain weather, and the like for each point of a subject region.
Illustrates the simulation result of the spread of a forest fire considering an distribution of terrain, local winds tree type, etc.