About 200 to 300 bodies were found along the waterline in Sendai, a port city in northeastern Japan and the closest major city to the epicenter. Two days late the death toll was in the hundreds, but Japanese news media quoted government officials as saying that it would almost certainly rise to more than 1,000. News reports that day after the earthquake said that more than 80 people were killed. Of these 23.2 percent were 80 or older 22.9 percent were in their 70s 19 percent were in their 60s 11.6 percent were in their 50s 6.9 percent were in their 40s 6 percent were in their 30s 3.2 percent were in the 20s 3.2 percent were in their 10s and 4.1 percent were in 0 to 9. At that point 2,853 victims had been identified. When the death toll topped 10,000 on March 25: 6,097 of the dead were in Miyagi Prefecture, where Sendai is located 3,056 were in Iwate Prefecture and 855 were in Fukushima Prefecture and 20 and 17 were in Ibaraki and Chiba Prefectures respectively. Ishinomaki was one of the worst-hit cities. The conclusion that one draws from this data is that relatively young people were better able to make a dash to safety while the elderly, because they were slower, had difficulty reaching high ground in time.Ī large number of victims were from Miyagi Prefecture. People in their 70s accounted for the largest proportion with 3,747, or 24 percent of the total, followed by 3,375 people aged 80 or older, or 22 percent, and 2,942 in their 60s, or 19 percent.
Ībout 64 percent of victims were aged 60 or older.
By prefecture, Miyagi had 702 deaths among people under 20, followed by 227 in Iwate and 117 in Fukushima. Of the 161 people aged 19 or younger reported as missing to police headquarters in the three prefectures are included, the number of dead or missing people in these age brackets totals 1,046, according to the NPA. A total of 466 of the dead were 9 or younger, and 419 were aged 10 to 19. A total of 1,600 children lost one or both parents. Accurate death figures were hard to determine early on because there was some overlap between the missing and dead and not all residents or people in areas devastated by the tsunami could not be accounted for.Ī total of 1,046 people aged 19 or younger died or went missing in the three prefectures hit hardest by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in 2011 according to the National Police Agency. The identities of 15,308 bodies found since the disaster, or 97 percent, had been confirmed at that time. At that time a total of 3,155 were missing in Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures. The death toll as of March 2012 was 15,854 in 12 prefectures, including Tokyo and Hokkaido. As of Apthe official death toll stood at than 13,013 with 4,684 injured and 14,608 people listed as missing. As of May 1, 2011: 14,662 were confirmed dead, 11,019 were missing, and 5,278 were injured. As of June 2011 the death toll reached 15,413, with about 2,000, or 13 percent, of the bodies unidentified. Soma Before The total number of casualties confirmed by Japanese National Police Agency in March 2019 was 18,297 dead, 2,533 missing and 6,157 injured. DEAD AND MISSING FROM THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF MARCH 11, 2011
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