Index to Evaluate Tsunami Evacuation  Potential and its Validation at Yamada, Iwate Prefecture

Yozo Goto

doi:10.20965/jdr.2014.p0730

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JDR Vol.9 No.sp pp. 730-742

(2014)

doi: 10.20965/jdr.2014.p0730

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Index to Evaluate Tsunami Evacuation Potential and its Validation at Yamada, Iwate Prefecture

Yozo Goto

Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan

Received:

April 7, 2014

Accepted:

July 10, 2014

Published:

September 1, 2014

Keywords:

Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster, Yamada town, tsunami evacuation, victim index

Abstract

Over 18,000 people were killed or went missing in Tohoku district Pacific coast communities during the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster. The author proposes a victimindex, a simple index to evaluate tsunami evacuation potential, for comprehensively evaluating the ease of evacuation and the evacuation capability of residents in communities based on field research data, and determined the index values for 13 villages of Yamada town, Iwate prefecture. Whether the index values matched regional features was analyzed using interview survey data on evacuation actions of residents by the Joint Survey Group on Tsunami Evacuation during the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster (team for Yamada and Ishinomaki) (Appendix A). As a result, under some restrictions, the difference in features related to the evacuation capability of affected communities could be explained well using the victim index. This index is applicable to compare damaged factors among the communities and allows for the objective analysis of damage potential of each community.

Cite this article as:

Y. Goto, “Index to Evaluate Tsunami Evacuation Potential and its Validation at Yamada, Iwate Prefecture,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.9 No.sp, pp. 730-742, 2014.

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[3] [3] K. Sugimura, M. Ushiyama, S. Yokomaku, and M. Honma, “Study on the Feature of Human Damage in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami,” Proceedings for 31^th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science, pp. 129-130, September, 2012 (in Japanese).

[4] [4] The City Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo, “Archive of Recovery Support Survey,”
http://fukkou.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/default/about [accessed March 2014]

[5] [5] Y. Goto, “Fact-Finding about Evacuation from the Unexpectedly Large Tsunami,” Proc. of One Year after 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake – International Symposium on Engineering Lessons Learned from the Great Earthquake –, DVD publication, JAEE, Mar. 2012.

[6] [6] T.Mikami, “The Survey Analysis about the Victims by the Tsunami under the Great East Japan Earthquake – Yamada-cho and Ishinomaki city –,” Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. A1 (Structural Engineering & Earthquake Engineering (SE/EE)) Vol.70, No.4, 2014 (in Japanese).

[7] [7] T. Imamura, Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo Imperial University, Separate Volume No.1, pp. 1-16, 1934 (in Japanese).

[8] [8] Iwate Nippo WebNews (in Japanese),
http://www.iwate-np.co.jp/311shinsai/saiko/saiko110608.html [accessed March 2014]