都内死者、最大６１００人　建物被害は１９．４万棟―１２年想定比３～４割減・首都直下地震

　東京都は２５日、防災会議（会長・小池百合子知事）を開き、首都直下地震などによる被害想定を１０年ぶりに見直し、公表した。都心南部でマグニチュード（Ｍ）７．３の直下型地震が発生した場合、都内の死者は最大で約６１００人、揺れや火災による建物被害は約１９万４４００棟に上ると推計した。住宅の耐震化や不燃化の対策が進展し、２０１２年に公表した従来想定と比べ、被害を３～４割軽減できると見込んだ。
　小池知事は会議の席上、「被害想定の結果を踏まえ、都の総力を挙げて防災に取り組む」と強調。都は今後、被害軽減の目標や対策を検討し、地域防災計画を修正する。２３年１月中にも素案を公表、２３年度初めに決定する。（2022/05/25-17:17）

Up to some 6,100 people would be killed in Tokyo in a possible powerful earthquake occurring directly under the southern part of the heart of the Japanese capital, the Tokyo metropolitan government said Wednesday.
   If a 7.3-magnitude temblor strikes, 194,400 buildings in Tokyo would be damaged by the quake or subsequent fires, the metropolitan government also said.
   The estimated number of fatalities is down by roughly 3,500 from the Tokyo government's previous forecast made in 2012. That of buildings to be damaged is down by some 109,900, thanks partly to progress in the work to make more and more houses quake- and fire-resistant.
   The revised estimates were adopted at the day's meeting of the metropolitan government's disaster management task force, headed by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.
   Based on the new estimates, the Tokyo government will consider measures to further reduce earthquake damage and revise its disaster management plans, aiming to work out a draft by the end of March next year.