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Tsukuba research institutes' landside experiment

TSUKUBA, Japan - The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, conducts an experiment on Aug. 22, 2014, using heavy artificial rain to examine how a landslide occurs. The upper and lower photos show a slope before and after the rain, respectively. The experiment was carried out following massive mudslides in the city of Hiroshima.

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Landside demonstrated with artificial rain in Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - A damaged slope after heavy artificial rain is seen in this photo taken on Aug. 22, 2014, at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. The experiment was conducted following massive mudslides in the city of Hiroshima.

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Kyoto Univ's tsunami breakwater model tested

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute conducts an operation test of a tsunami breakwater model at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto City on July 16, 2014, using an artificially reproduced tsunami.

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Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - An artificially reproduced tsunami is weakened by a prototype movable breakwater developed by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University during a test operation at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014.

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Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - A facility that artificially reproduces tsunami is shown to the press at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014. The equipment was used for the day's test operation of a movable tsunami breakwater.

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'Guerrilla heavy rain' replicated indoors

TSUKUBA, Japan - National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention replicates a sudden violent rain storm at its experiment facility in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 24, 2014.

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World's largest quake simulator opened to public

What is claimed to be the world's largest earthquake simulator -- capable of artificially generating tremors of intensity levels greater than the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake -- is opened to the public Oct. 8. The simulator was unveiled at a shipyard in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. The company built the machine at the request of the Science and Technology Agency's National Research Institute for Disaster Prevention.

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Joint experiment to tell heavy rain info 10 minutes before

An e-mail message forecasting heavy rain to begin in about 10 minutes is displayed on a mobile phone screen. It is part of a joint social experiment by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention and Japan Weather Association started on June 1, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster prevention institute simulates Japan's heaviest downpour

The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, shows the press on June 2, 2015, a simulation of an immense downpour, a rainfall of 300 millimeters per hour, at its laboratory. The rainfall was equivalent to that measured in Niigata Prefecture in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsukuba research institutes' landside experiment

TSUKUBA, Japan - The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, conducts an experiment on Aug. 22, 2014, using heavy artificial rain to examine how a landslide occurs. The upper and lower photos show a slope before and after the rain, respectively. The experiment was carried out following massive mudslides in the city of Hiroshima. (Kyodo)

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Landside demonstrated with artificial rain in Tsukuba

TSUKUBA, Japan - A damaged slope after heavy artificial rain is seen in this photo taken on Aug. 22, 2014, at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. The experiment was conducted following massive mudslides in the city of Hiroshima. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - An artificially reproduced tsunami is weakened by a prototype movable breakwater developed by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University during a test operation at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014. (Kyodo)

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World's largest quake simulator opened to public

What is claimed to be the world's largest earthquake simulator -- capable of artificially generating tremors of intensity levels greater than the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake -- is opened to the public Oct. 8. The simulator was unveiled at a shipyard in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. The company built the machine at the request of the Science and Technology Agency's National Research Institute for Disaster Prevention.