Abstract
Buildings washed away by the tsunami generated by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake
were identified from aerial photographs and field surveys. Based on newspaper and television
reports, various geographic information, and field surveys, we estimated the circumstances under
which the earthquake's fatalities and missing occurred. The most severe damage occurred in
Horyu-machi, Suzu City, where 17 houses washed away by the tsunami were deciphered. In this
area, 167 collapsed houses were deciphered as a result of the earthquake, and the damage to
houses caused by the tsunami was limited compared to the damage to houses caused by the
earthquake. The number of fatalities that occurred in the tsunami inundation areas was estimated
to be about 25. About five of these fatalities are estimated to have been caused primarily by the
tsunami. Most of them occurred in Horyu-machi, Suzu City. The ratio of fatalities to the population
in the tsunami inundation zone in this district was estimated to be 0.38%. This ratio is about the
same as that of the area hit by a tsunami of the same magnitude in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
