An Analysis of Amount of Human Resource Support from Outside of the Affected Areas and its Associated Factors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster

Abstract

It is important to manage a system for human resource support from outside of affected areas for disaster response. In this paper, we have basically evaluated and analyzed the data of external human resource support into Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. The number of assisting staffs from outside affected area, volunteers and temporary inflowing population as the index of human resource support at each city and town have been evaluated with available parameters. The results suggest that the correlation of the number of external human resource with the hazard impact is low but those with human damage, physical damage, population before the quake, and exposure of mass media is significant.