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

Volume

4

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

27

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pulse, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2154-2287

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPUL.2013.2250851

Filename

6518194