Elderly facilities significantly increased in the tsunami-presumed area Nankai Trough giant earthquake April 28, 8:40
As a result of NHK's independent analysis of data on the facilities for the elderly who reside in four prefectures that are expected to suffer major damage from the Nankai Trough Earthquake, the facilities in areas where tsunami inundation is expected after the Great East Japan Earthquake It turns out that the number has increased significantly. Experts point out that "new measures that limit the construction of facilities are also required."
Nine years ago the Great East Japan Earthquake struck many elderly people's institutional facilities, and a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare survey found that the number of people who died or were missing was 658.
NHK obtained a list of institutional facilities for the elderly in the four prefectures of Shizuoka, Mie, Kochi, and Miyazaki, which are expected to suffer major damage from the Nankai Trough Earthquake, and analyzed their location conditions independently.
As a result, it was found that the number of institutional facilities in the tsunami inundation area had more than doubled in the 10 years from 2010, the year before the Great East Japan Earthquake, to the last year.
By prefecture,
▽ Miyazaki prefecture increased from 27 facilities to 101 facilities and increased by 3.7 times,
▽ Mie prefecture increased from 46 facilities to 101 facilities and 2.2 times,
▽ Shizuoka prefecture from 36 facilities to 52 facilities and 1.4 times In
▽ Kochi prefecture, the number was 1.4 times, from 38 to 54.
Regarding elderly facilities in areas at risk of tsunami, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, a new law that can regulate construction if local governments designate areas with a particularly high risk of tsunami as "tsunami disaster special caution area" Was enforced.
However, the only municipality that has designated the area is Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and many local governments are worried about the residents' reaction to the development regulations and the use of the system has not progressed.
Regarding this result, Associate Professor Yasunori Hata of the Graduate School of Yamanashi University, who is familiar with the relationship between disaster prevention and urban development, said, "In the area at risk of the tsunami of the Nankai Trough, the price of land tends to be low, and if the usage fee is low There is also a need for elderly people who cannot afford it, so the development of facilities may proceed even on risky land. "
In addition, he added, "In principle, new measures that limit construction are required for facilities that require consideration for disaster prevention, such as institutional facilities for elderly people, as they may cause major damage."