Typhoon No. 19 1 month “Don't think to be damaged” More than 80% Disaster victim survey November 12, 6:05

It is one month in 12 days from the heavy rain of Typhoon # 19. In a questionnaire survey conducted by NHK for more than 300 victims in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Nagano prefectures, more than 80% of respondents said they did not think they would be damaged. The issue was re-emerged as to how to connect with measures by taking it as “everyone”.

NHK surveyed about 330 people in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Nagano prefectures who were damaged in houses and living in evacuation shelters due to heavy rain caused by typhoon No. 19 early this month We conducted a survey.

In the question, “Did you think you would suffer damage before the typhoon approached?”
▽ 83.7% of people answered "I didn't imagine"
▽ “I was imaged” was 16.3%.

For the hazard map of local governments showing the risk of inundation and sediment disasters,
▽ "Not confirmed" reached 40.3%,
▽ “I didn't refer to it” was 28.3%, and the issue of the disaster was re-examined as to how the disaster risk was regarded as “oneself” and how it would lead to early preparation and evacuation.

In this typhoon, 81% of the three prefectures answered “evacuated”
For the first evacuated area,
▽ “Local government shelter” was the highest at 39.1%,
▽ "Vertical evacuation" to move to the 2nd floor or higher of the home was 28.2%.

When asked about the opportunity to evacuate people in the affected area, 25.1%, one in four people, answered that the surrounding situation was worse, such as inundation, river flooding, and landslides. The most.

▽ Next, "Local government disaster prevention radio" is 17.2%,
▽ 14.6% of "Emergency early warning mail"
▽ “TV / Radio” was 14%.

Also,
▽ "Nearby people calling" is 9%,
▽ 8.2% of "family / relatives"
▽ The ratio of "firefighting / police" was 4.7%, and 21.9% of the people who evacuated by direct voices together, and it was revealed that disaster prevention information was obtained in various ways.

In addition, the questionnaire also asked about information that was used for evacuation,
▽ Local government's "evacuation instructions and recommendations" 21.7%,
▽ The heavy rain warning level that started operation is 19.4%,
▽ 16.7% of "alarms such as heavy rain, flood, storm" announced by the Japan Meteorological Agency
▽ "Water level information of the river" was 14.4%, and it was understood that people in this area were interested in information published by public institutions.

Expert "Efforts to get people to know the danger through hazard maps"

About 80% of the respondents said they didn't think they would be damaged, Professor Shizuoka University's Motoyuki Ushiyama, who specializes in disaster prevention, said, “It ’s not a good situation. There may not be any knowledge about the dangers in the place where you live, there is no specific bullet to solve the problem, but we are making efforts to make people aware of the dangers of floods and landslides by using hazard maps. It ’s all about going. ”

Also, regarding the various reasons for evacuation, such as disaster prevention administrative radio and direct calls, “There are easy ways to communicate depending on the region, so it is important to prepare various means of communication according to the local circumstances. "