Announcement

Shortly after 11pm on 13 February (JST), a strong 7.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Tohoku and Kanto area. Reportedly over 150 people were injured and approximately 870,000 houses were left without electricity temporarily. This earthquake is considered to be an aftershock of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
No damage has been reported so far on NIED’s experimental facilities.
Immediately after the quake, NIED established NIED-CRS (https://crs.bosai.go.jp/   Note: NIED-CRS is only in Japanese) which is providing disaster-information mapping products. *
Furthermore, NIED has dispatched staff to Fukushima prefectural government as a member of ISUT (Information Support Team for Disaster Response). **

* NIED operates NIED-Crisis Response Site "NIED-CRS” for summarizing and transmitting information for understanding the circumstances of various disasters over the phases from warning/alert to (emergency) response. NIED-CRS integrates broad disaster information released by NIED and relevant organizations in the format of a visually comprehensible map. (Note: NIED-CRS will be renamed as Bosai X View)

** ISUT (Information Support Team for Disaster Response) is a team comprising personnel from the Cabinet Office and NIED, aiming at supporting the systematic and comprehensive understand of disaster circumstances by synthesizing information from government ministries and agencies and other public institutions. On the disaster site, ISUT gathers and summarizes information within the on-site disaster response HQs and shares the synthesized information to facilitate disaster response and rehabilitation/recovery efforts.