Title :
The Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons Learned at Tohoku University Hospital During the First 72 Hours
Author :
Nakagawa, A. ; Furukawa, Hiroshi ; Konishi, Ryusuke ; Kudo, Daisuke ; Matsumura, Takeshi ; Sato, Daisuke ; Abe, Y. ; Washio, Takashi ; Arafune, T. ; Yamanouchi, S. ; Kushimoto, Shigeki ; Tominaga, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept of Neurosurgery/Emergency Center, Tohoku Univ Grad School of Med/Tohoku Univ Hosp., Sendai, Aoba-ku, Japan
Abstract :
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake occurred off the northeast coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. (local time) on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 km (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula and the hypocenter at a depth of approximately 32 km (20 mi) below sea level [Figure 1(a)] [1]. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves, which reached heights of up to 40.5 m (133 ft) in Miyako and traveled around 4 km (about 2.5 mi) inland in the Sendai area. As of 30 March 2012, a total of 18,897 people were either dead or missing.
Keywords :
Disaster management; Earthquakes; Emergency services; Hospitals; Japan; Medical services; Disaster Medicine; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Earthquakes; Equipment Failure; Hospitals, University; Humans; Internet; Japan; Mass Casualty Incidents; Tomography, X-Ray Computed;
Journal_Title :
Pulse, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPUL.2013.2250851
