Research for Enforcement of Tsunami Evacuation Measures in the Historical Tourist City, Kamakura, based on Findings by surveys

Abstract

This paper describes the result of combination of the survey for residents, junior high school students and his/ her parents, visitors at seaside in Kamakura City, and interviews to municipal government, and workshop discussions. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 residents in Kamakura City engage in counter tsunami measures based on the damage estimation of Nankai Trough earthquake we found few residents understand accurate information for earthquake and tsunami in general. They would take longer time to evacuate from tsunami and be troubled with visitors as a high risk factor during their tsunami evacuations. Also we showed the issues such as cooperation among residents and visitors, and to have them for knowledges and trainning of evacuating from tsunami.