Confirmatory Study on Association of Death Toll with Building Damage, Socialvulnerability, and Seismic Intensity in 1995 Kobe Earthquake

Abstract

This paper shows analysis of causal model that put mortality as dependent variable and put age, household income, and total collapse percentage of houses as explaining variable in Higashinada-ward, Nada-ward, Hyogo-ward, Nagata-ward, and Suma-ward in the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. As a result, we notice the causes of accrual of death toll are defferent in each wards. For example, in Higashinada-ward, household income under 2 million yen and over 10 million yen affect the death.