ISO 37174:2024 スマートコミュニティインフラ | ページ 2

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 268, Sustainable cities and communities, Subcommittee SC 1, Smart community infrastructures.

Introduction

Earthquakes are one of the most devastating of all the natural hazards because of their impact. To achieve the goal set by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction of 2015–2030,^[1] it is necessary for relevant stakeholders in communities to prevent and reduce damage caused by earthquakes and to maintain the community’s level of services and quality of life after the earthquakes. Effective use of a seismometer system will contribute to these objectives by enabling more informed emergency responses. Data from seismometer systems also helps to improve understanding and modelling of ground motion and structural behaviour, leading to improved seismic design regulations and improved seismic risk modelling.

In some seismically active countries, the damage caused by earthquakes has also been mitigated by installing appropriate seismometers and by effectively utilizing the obtained data. This data can be utilized not only for land use control or the structural design of buildings and other facilities but also for emergency responses, evacuation guidance, and the development of business continuity plans to guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a pre-defined level of operation following the disruption.

However, the effectiveness of seismometer systems as one of the tools for seismic risk reduction has not been recognized globally due to the lack of systematic sharing of knowledge. While rapid urban development has taken place in emerging and developing countries with significant earthquake risk, such as countries in Asia and Central and South America, the lack of knowledge has resulted in the underutilization of seismometer systems and this has contributed to the lack of resilience in the communities in these countries.

This document aims to assist relevant stakeholders, such as the various levels of governments, planners, developers, and operators of the communities in emerging and developing countries, to optimize their investments in urban development by deploying and utilizing seismometer systems as a tool for disaster risk reduction from earthquakes. This document also describes a categorization of the purposes of seismometer systems for achieving disaster risk reduction, as well as the specifications of seismometer systems required for the specific purpose, as part of the smart community infrastructures described in ISO/TR 6030.

Analysis of the data obtained from seismometer systems provides information for managing risk and reducing the impact on people, organizations, infrastructures, and livelihoods as well as for planning preventive measures and emergency responses after an earthquake. For these reasons, effective utilization of this data will enable smart communities to enhance their resilience to earthquakes.

1 Scope

This document provides guidance for developing, implementing and maintaining seismometer systems as a part of the infrastructures for disaster risk reduction in smart communities. The seismometer systems in this document can be used for the observation of seismic activity such as earthquakes, microseismic motion and volcanic tremors especially in high seismic hazard areas.

This document shows examples of how different types of seismometers can fulfil the needs and expectations of users and help planners, developers, and community operators to effectively use seismometers and related data for disaster risk reduction.

This document excludes drop-ball type and pendulum type seismometers. The features of the seismometer systems in this document are not intended for the measurement of vibrations caused by landslides.

This document does not address how to design and develop seismometer systems (e.g. seismometers installed in railway systems).

2 Normative references

There are no normative references in this document.

3 Terms and definitions

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