Miyagi Prefecture

Missing - Injuries Private Property Damage

City, Town or Deaths Missing Declared (Residences)
Village Persons Dead* Serious Slight Other TD SD PD
Coastal Region
Kesennuma City 1,109 214 229* Survey Survey Survey 8,483 2,571 4,761
Minami- 600 211 100* Survey Survey Survey 3,143 178 1,204
Sanrikucho
Ishinomaki City 3,277 420 560* Survey Survey Survey 20,044 13,049 19,948
Onagawa-cho 593 257 325* Survey Survey Survey 2,924 349 661
Higashi- 1,066 23 62 59 Survey 5,519 5,558 3,504
Matsushima City
Matsushima-cho 2 3 34 221 1,785 1,561
Rifu-cho 1 4 Survey Survey 56 901 3,564
Shiogama City 24 1 2 8 Survey 672 3,278 6,993
Shichigahama-cho 76 2 Survey Survey Survey 674 650 2,605
Tagajo City 188 Survey Survey Survey 1,746 3,730 6,166
Sendai City 658 27 276 1,999 30,034 109,609 116,046
Natori City 912 38 14 194 2,801 1,129 10,061
Iwanuma City 180 1 7 286 736 1,606 3,086
Watari-cho 265 4 2 43 2,389 1,150 2,048
Yamamoto-cho 681 17 9 81 Survey 2,217 1,085 1,138
Subtotals 9,631 1,214 1,630* 379 2,704

Inland Region
Tome City 3 12 40 201 1,798 3,362
Wakuya-cho 1 1 1 20 24 144 735 1,034
Misato-machi 19 48 129 627 3,130
Osato-cho 1 1 4 50 274 791
Osaki City 2 79 147 596 2,434 9,138
Ohira-mura 4 19 764
Shibata-machi 2 3 1 Survey 13 189 1,707
Shiroishi City 18 40 566 2,171
Kakuda City 4 13 158 1,036
Shichigashuku- 9
machi
Kurihara City 6 544 58 372 4,552
Ogawara-machi 1 10 148 1,333
Murata-cho 1 9 116 652
Kawasaki-cho 3 14 460
Taiwa-cho 1 1 7 42 268 2,791
Tomiya-cho 2 30 16 537 5,305
Shikama-cho 9 15 215
Kami-cho 33 8 35 749
Zao-machi 16 156 1,143
Marumori-machi 1 1 38 513
Subtotals 6 5 123 911 28

Totals 9,638 1,219 1,630* 502 3,615 28 83,005 155,130 224,202

1. Asterisked figures are Ministry of Justice statistics.
2. The Ministry of Justice has not provided a complete breakdown of statistics by city, town, and village.
3. TD = Residences Totally Destroyed, SD = Substantially Damaged, PD = Partially Damaged
4. Deaths (10,566) reported by Miyagi Prefecture include deaths directly attributable to the Great East Japan
Earthquake and resulting tsunami (9,638) and Earthquake-Related Deaths (928).
5. Earthquake-Related Deaths are certified by cities, towns, and villages. As a result, Earthquake-Related Deaths
(928) reported by Miyagi Prefecture lag the actual totals for some cities, towns, and villages.
6. All totals reported by Miyagi Prefecture on Friday, November 8, 2019, 3:00 PM JST (based on data collected as
of October 31, 2019).

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Excerpted from the “Tears of Sanriku (三陸の涙)”