MUNICIPALITY‘S MORTALITY RATE ACCORDING TO INUNDATION LEVEL AND AGE CLASSES ON THE 2011 GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE

Abstract

 The authors clarified the age-specific mortality by each affected municipality that associated with the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami based on 500m grid population census, casualty reports and geographical inundation information. As a result, the relationship of inundation conditions (washed away or not) and death was elucidated: the death rates in washed-away areas were obviously high and especially those of the over 70 age-classes. The mortality rate of male is slightly higher than femail. The mortality rate based on national census is almost same of that is considered daytime population.