library bookshelves for disaster planning & response
Some of the titles on the larger books maybe legible by clicking the image for full-size display. It seems the majority refer to the triple disaster along the NE coast of Honshu on 3-11-2011. The shelves on the left margin of the frame also concern disasters and emergency preparedness for individuals and organizations, but the collection that occupies most of this picture is about or derivative to the 2011 catastrophe or earthquake, then tsunami, then nuclear radiation exposure. In the past 6 years a lot of progress at the national level has been made to raise the awareness and sometimes preparations of the average person, particularly in the most geologically active, east-facing side of the island nation. Drills are performed, awards given, exercises involving multiple organizations and levels of government and responders both professional and volunteer now take place from time to time. Cell phones all are equipped with an emergency alert system, as well as a way for a person in the vicinity of a natural or human-caused event to express their safety on a kind of bulletin board dedicated to such notifications. The mega disasters most probable in the lifetime of citizens today are talked about from time to time, so that many average people have at least heard or seen something about them, even if they do not know the geology or have not practiced abandoning their home or workplace to find refuge.
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library bookshelves for disaster planning & response
Some of the titles on the larger books maybe legible by clicking the image for full-size display. It seems the majority refer to the triple disaster along the NE coast of Honshu on 3-11-2011. The shelves on the left margin of the frame also concern disasters and emergency preparedness for individuals and organizations, but the collection that occupies most of this picture is about or derivative to the 2011 catastrophe or earthquake, then tsunami, then nuclear radiation exposure. In the past 6 years a lot of progress at the national level has been made to raise the awareness and sometimes preparations of the average person, particularly in the most geologically active, east-facing side of the island nation. Drills are performed, awards given, exercises involving multiple organizations and levels of government and responders both professional and volunteer now take place from time to time. Cell phones all are equipped with an emergency alert system, as well as a way for a person in the vicinity of a natural or human-caused event to express their safety on a kind of bulletin board dedicated to such notifications. The mega disasters most probable in the lifetime of citizens today are talked about from time to time, so that many average people have at least heard or seen something about them, even if they do not know the geology or have not practiced abandoning their home or workplace to find refuge.
See full-image view by pressing 'z' or clicking the image; screen-fill by pressing 'L'.