A Study on the Mechanism of Casualty based on a Survey of the Household including the Seriously Injured in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster

Abstract

This study is an analysis based on hearing survey of the household including the seriously injured in the Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster. This survey has made possible to analyze slight injury, moderate injury and unwounded which had been unknown until this study, besides dead and serious injury. It is clarified that life style affects their injuly and how toppling fumiture causes casualty. There were clear differences in the casualty ratio depending on the floor where the victim at the time of the quake(first vs. second floor), the cause of casualty and other details.