台風ハイエンに伴うレイテ島沿岸部の人的被害状況

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Super Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013 caused over 7,000 casualties by remarkably high wind speed, storm surges and waves. In this paper, characteristics of human loss in the coastal region of Leyte Island, Philippines were investigated based on the relationship between the observed inundation height and depth and the number of deaths and missing people in each barangay. From the analysis, barangays with more than 10 % of the fatality ratio were found along the coastal areas in Tacloban city and Palo and Tanauan municipalities. It was found that the scale of human damage caused by Haiyan is similar to that caused by any other historical tsunami disaster, clearly indicating the massive external force of the storm surge during the Haiyan event and the vulnerability of those coastal areas.