The toll of the victims of the Mikawa earthquake by the surface rupture along the Fukozu fault

Abstract

This study was analyzed building damage and human damages by the 1944 Tonankai earthquake and the Mikawa earthquake in Aichi Prefecture. We compared in detail the number of collapse house, victims, and physical geographic condition, at the village scale. As the result we can show the feature of disaster type by the earthquake shock and the displacement. On the earthquake shock, houses are destroyed. Since it takes time to be completely destroyed, people has the time to escape from the onslaught of violence. On the other hand, on the displacement houses are destroyed in a moment before people escape.