Abstract
This research investigated tsunami evacuation in the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
Many researchers shed light on the tsunami evacuation to save lives, and the 2024 Noto Peninsula
Earthquake was a case in which people were affected by the severe tsunami. Therefore, we
conducted survey research on the residents at Ishikawa Prefecture to identify the actual condition
of the tsunami evacuation and how disaster information promoted tsunami evacuation. Our team
and the Kanazawa branch of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) collected data from the
residents and obtained 285 (male: 107, female: 140, unknown: 11) responses. As a result, nearly
60% of all respondents evacuated from the tsunami, regardless of whether they lived in hazardous
zones on the hazard map. Additionally, many of them evacuated with their families. Regarding
disaster information, we extracted three categories of residents based on the information that
influenced their evacuation: “depending on others”, “depending on direct information and
media”, and “depending on direct information and internal knowledge”. Implications for future
disaster risk reduction are discussed.
