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Catastrophe Report 5
February 21 - July 21, 2004 |
Floods and mudslides - Japan
| Territory: |
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Japan |
| Region: |
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Niigata, Fukui and Fukushima prefectures,
NW Japan |
| Date: |
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13 – 18 July |
| Event: |
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Floods and mudslides |
| Impact: |
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24,000 homes in the prefecture were damaged by
floods or landslides. More than 136,000 residents were ordered
or advised to evacuate. The death toll, as of July 18th, was
18, with a further five people missing. Worst hit were the city
of Sanjo and the adjacent town of Nakanoshima, where rising
river levels caused protective embankments to collapse, leading
to the flooding of around 60 percent of Nakanoshima and the
inundation of 5,000 buildings in Sanjo. The rivers most severely
affected included the Asuwa, Kiriyata, and Ikarashi. Niigata
is one of Japan’s major rice growing regions, and reports
suggest that wide swathes of rice fields have been buried in
mud. No loss figures are yet available. |
| Summary: |
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Torrential rains starting on July 13th, and
associated with a frontal system, dumped a record 400 mm of
rain in the Niigata region by July 15th, with further intense
rainfall following. Rain fell at more than 43 mm an hour in
many places. Three rivers burst their banks in the prefecture,
while surface run-off also triggered close to 400 landslides. |
| Data sources: |
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Pacific Disaster Management Information Network
http://pdmin.coe-dmha.org/apdr/archives/APDR_071504.htm
Dartmouth Flood Observatory
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/2003282.html
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ReliefWeb
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND?OpenView&Start=1
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