Strength in Beauty – Rethinking Tsunami Defense
In tsunami preparedness, it turns out there can be strength in beauty. Rows of green hills strategically arranged along coastlines can help to fend off destruction from tsunamis while preserving…
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Japan’s Experience With Earthquakes Can Help Teach Us to Learn to Live With Floods
The intense rainfall from storms this winter has caused severe flooding in numerous cities across the UK. The storms have left at least eight people dead, and economic losses have…
Asian Cities Urged to Bolster Defence Against Rising Seas
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Major Asian cities, including Tokyo, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Shanghai, are most at risk from rising sea levels, researchers warned…
Japan – Researchers Devise Powerful New Flood Monitoring System
Flooding accounts for a third of the average annual economic losses caused by natural disasters worldwide. Flood damage resulting from typhoons and torrential rainfall is increasing each year; thus, flood…
Japan – 10 Dead After More Floods and Landslides Hit Eastern Areas
Torrential rain has triggered more flooding and mudslides in eastern parts of Japan, just 2 weeks after devastating floods caused by Typhoon Hagibis. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported that at…
Japan – Typhoon Hagibis Leaves Over 40 Dead
At least 42 people have died in Typhoon Hagibis in Japan after the storm brought torrential rain that triggered landslides and floods. Another 15 people are still missing and 198…
More Frequent and Intense Tropical Storms Mean Less Recovery Time for the World’s Coastlines
Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into hurricanes or typhoons – affect coastal regions around the world. Our research team, centered…
Japan – Deadly Tropical Cyclone ‘Faxai’ Dumps Heavy Rain
Tropical Cyclone ‘Faxai’ made landfall near Chiba City, east of Tokyo, Japan, on 08 September before moving over the central eastern coast of Honshu Island and North Pacific Ocean. With…
Japan – 2 Dead, Thousands Evacuated After Floods and Record Rainfall
Record rain has caused flooding and landslides in southern Japan. At least 2 people have died. Authorities have issued evacuation orders for over 800,000 people. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported…
Philippines – Hundreds Evacuated After Heavy Rain From Storm Danas
Tropical Cyclone Danas formed as an area of low pressure over the western Philippine Sea 15 to 16 July, 2019, moving north of Luzon Island, Philippines, as it strengthened. Known…
Japan – 1 Million Ordered to Evacuate After Torrential Rain in Kyushu
Nearly 1 million people are under evacuation orders on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan after days of torrential rain threatened to trigger flooding and landslides. According to figures…
Fewer Natural Disasters in 2018 Says Report
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) have released their annual disaster statistics report for 2018. According to CRED’s figures, in 2018, there were 315 natural disaster…
NASA Measures Rainfall Rates Within Typhoon Kong-Rey
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over Typhoon Kong-Rey moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and found heaviest rainfall occurring in the storm’s eyewall. The eyewall…
Super Typhoon Trami’s Rainfall Examined by NASA
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core observatory satellite probed super typhoon Trami when it traveled above the northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided an analysis of heavy rainfall and…
Japan – Kansai Airport Flooded After Typhoon Jebi Hits
After making landfall in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku Island, around noon local time, 04 September 2018, before crossing eastern Shikoku and Osaka Prefecture (Honshu Island). It reached the Sea of Japan…
Japan – Floods and Landslides Leave 80 Dead, 28 Missing
Floods and landslides in Japan have killed at least 80 people and left 28 people missing, according to the country’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA). Torrential rain in the…
