THE SURVEY ANALYSYS ABOUT THE VICTIMS BY THE TSUNAMI UNDER THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE - YAMADA-CHO AND ISHINOMAKI CITY -

Abstract

 Almost twenty thousand people died due to the giant tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthuake, even though the earthquake occurred in daytime, the tsunami took at least half an hour to arrive at coast line and people in the region should have been at a relatively high disaster preparedness level. The purposes of this paper were to find the truth about why so many people had to die and to extract lessons for the community, municipalities and the next generation. So, the survey in this paper were to clarity where the tsunami victims were and what they did in Yamada-cho and Ishinomaki-shi under Tsunami. It is found that about 66% of the victims by the tsunami in Ishinomaki city and about 49% of them in Yamada town ware in home when the tsunami under the grate east japan earthquake.