Characteristics of the Evacuees in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Disaster in Uki City, Kumamoto Prefecture

Abstract

The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Disaster has started by the twice earthquakes with seismic intensity
7 at the epicenters, and occurred so many evacuees from destroyed houses to the
evacuation centers in each community in Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu island, Japan.
Characteristic of the disaster are that the number of the partially destroyed
houses is much more than one of the completely destroyed and the half destroyed,
and that there are residential land damages by cracks and collapses with small magnitude.
So many evacuees are not compensated enough for the partially destroyed houses
and residential land damages.