Abstract

The 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami caused severe damage to port facilities and the operations of the ports were severely disrupted. We have gathered the data of damage due to the tsunami of each port facility with the cooperation of port management bodies and Ports and Harbours Bureau of MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). This paper reports not only statistics of damage caused by the tsunami to ports and port facilities but also the tsunami fragility curves of port facilities by using the result of the data gathering on tsunami damage.

Keywords:
tohoku earthquake tsunami, warehouse, tsunami height, fragility curve, earthquake tsunami, severe damage, port facility, front-line breakwater, tsunami fragility curve, cumulative distribution function
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2014. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
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