Scenario

01. Insufficient Analysis or Research
02. Insufficient Practice
03. Tank Behavior at the Earth-Quake
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Bad Event
11. Mechanical Event
12. Sloshing by Warth-Quake
13. Bad Event
14. Mechanical Event
15. Friction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Leakage/Fire
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Manetary Damage 300 million yen

Fire of an outdoor storage tank caused due to sloshing from an earthquake
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Large earthquake cause sloshing by level swinging in a vessel. A projection in a tank may cause friction between metals by sloshing, take care !

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author DOBASHI, Ritsu (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)