Evacuation Behaviors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Nam-Yi Yun; Masanori Hamada

doi:10.20965/jdr.2012.p0458

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JDR Vol.7 No.sp pp. 458-467

(2012)

doi: 10.20965/jdr.2012.p0458

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Evacuation Behaviors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Nam-Yi Yun and Masanori Hamada

Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

Received:

April 2, 2012

Accepted:

July 27, 2012

Published:

August 1, 2012

Keywords:

the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, disaster mitigation, evacuation time, evacuation place, preparedness before disaster, human impact

Abstract

We studied relationships between evacuation place and time, predisaster preparedness, and evacuation behavior and survival rate for both the dead and missing and the survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. In order to elucidate the human impact, thousands of witnesses in areas from Tohoku to Kanto were analyzed. With a sample data number of 1,153, results show that behavior during the disaster differed for survivors and the dead and missing and that actual evacuation was associated positively with a higher survival rate. Based on these results, integrated strategies are proposed and discussed for the reduction of casualties in future large-scale natural disasters.

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N. Yun and M. Hamada, “Evacuation Behaviors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.7 No.sp, pp. 458-467, 2012.

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[7] F. Imamura and S. Anawat, “Damage due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami and Its Lessons for Future Mitigation,” Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, pp. 21-62, 2012.

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[2] [2] M. Hamada and N. Y. Yun, “Future Directions of Earthquake – Tsunami Disaster Reduction Based on the Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,” 4th Japan-Greece Workshop on Seismic Design of Foundation: Kobe Gakuin University, pp. 5-10, 2011.

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