In February of last year, we observed violent shaking with a maximum seismic intensity of 6 or higher in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, and it has been one year since the earthquake, which killed two people including related deaths and injured more than 160 people.
In some areas affected by the disaster, repairs to damaged homes have not yet been completed, and restoration work is continuing.
On February 13, last year, there was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake with an epicenter off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, and we observed violent shaking with a maximum seismic intensity of 6 or higher in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.
The earthquake, which is said to be the aftershock of the Great East Japan Earthquake 11 years ago, killed two people in Fukushima Prefecture, including related deaths, injured 100 people, and in Miyagi Prefecture, injured 64 people.
In addition, many houses were damaged in the disaster areas of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.
Of these, more than 23,000 buildings in Fukushima Prefecture, including 137 completely destroyed, were damaged, and a total of 955 buildings in 12 cities and towns have not yet been repaired.
In Shinchi-cho, where shaking with a seismic intensity of 6 or higher was observed and housing damage was particularly high, there are still houses with blue sheets covering the roof that was damaged by the earthquake, and there is a danger of collapse in rental housing in the town. Therefore, 9 households who can no longer live in their homes continue to live in evacuation.
In Koriyama City, where a shaking with a seismic intensity of less than 6 was observed, a 6-story condominium that was severely damaged such as cracks in the outer wall was to be demolished, and the dismantling work that started last fall is still ongoing. ..
Some people haven't received the city's life reconstruction benefits yet
The 6-story condominium in the center of Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, where Mr. Kazuhiko Kimura lived, was large because the walls were cracked and the windows could not be opened due to the earthquake in February last year when a shaking with a seismic intensity of less than 6 was observed. There was damage.
Mr. Kimura was forced to move out because the management company decided to demolish this condominium that does not meet the current earthquake resistance standards, and after living in an evacuation center for about a month, about 500,000 from savings and fire insurance. I moved to the suburbs at the expense of the yen.
However, the benefit of more than 1 million yen provided by the city according to the degree of damage for rebuilding the life can still be received because the payment condition is that the dismantling of the damaged building is completed. Is not ...
The condominium where Mr. Kimura lived started to be dismantled in September last year under the framework that the city bears the cost on behalf of the owner, but the work is still going on and there are two more until the benefits are received. He says he has to wait for nearly a month.
Mr. Kimura said, "I had a lot of reserves by myself, but I was horrified if I didn't have any reserves. I moved with fear of aftershocks and the danger of collapse, but I will continue to move every year on Valentine's Day. Every time I come, I think I remember that earthquake and the cracked apartment. "