Research on A vailability of Temples as Tsunami Evacuation Facility

-A Case Study of tsunami affected areas of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Abstract

Tohoku experienced the big, vast and strong Tsunami disaster. There is an earnest need for the development of Tsunami evacuation facilities. This paper describes the suitability of Japanese temples as Tsunami shelters. In order to make clear the prob1em mentioned above, we investigate the relation between the altitude of temples and their observed Tsunami damages, and investigated the requirements as a Tsunami evacuation facilities and visited temples to listen to whether they satisfies the requirements. We also visited councils and heard how they think about the utilization of temples as Tsunami shelters. Purpose of this paper is to contribute to develop of Regional disaster prevention plan.