An attitudinal survey of local residents' evacuations in bunkyo-ward and facility use assumptions following the Tokyo metropolitan Earthquake

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to document refugees' attitudes using a questionnaire survey and estimate the condition of shelters during the start-up period. The results of this survey provides estimates of the number of evacuees, the local councils' preparations, and refugees' attitude. Prominent issues were categorized into four types: 1) Shelters having a high risk of overflow shortly after the earthquake 2) Shelters in areas having a high proportion of house collapses and fires and inactive shelter-operating councils 3) Shelters with inactive shelter-operating councils and poorly informed inhabitants 4) Shelters that have to consider numerous stranded commuters.