Overall Orange alert Flood for Japan
in Japan

Event summary

Flood Japan can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101571
Glide number: FL-2022-000288-JPN
Death: 0
Displaced: 300000
Countries: Japan
From - To 03 Aug - 15 Aug

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Tropical Storm Meari, Japan, August 2022Tropical Storm Meari made landfall on central Japan's Izu Peninsula on Saturday. Heavy rain fell in parts of Tokyo and Shizuoka Prefecture. Evacuation orders were issued to around 70,000 people in the city of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, due to threat of landslides. Some homes were left without power and flights were canceeled.Sun 14 Aug 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

Flood and wildfire emergency alerts will be sent directly to Britons’ .. 8/15/2022 12:14:00 PM.

Kit Malthouse, a minister in the Cabinet Office, said the new program will enable the Government to “warn people much more comprehensively” about impending danger. The notifications are designed to fill people’s mobile phone screens while t
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5 La inteligencia artificial se adelanta a las riadas 8/13/2022 7:09:00 PM.

El pasado mes de octubre, Japón sufrió uno de los peores meses en cuanto a lluvias tras el paso de un poderoso tifón que acabó con la vida de una decena de personas. A raíz de estas inundaciones, las autoridades niponas han planteado varios
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Atmosphere, Vol. 13, Pages 1277: Effects of Low-Frequency Oscillation .. 8/11/2022 4:28:00 PM.

Based on the daily precipitation data from 753 meteorological stations provided by the National Meteorological Information Center (China) and the daily reanalysis data from NCEP/NCAR and ERA5 during the period from 1980 to 2020, the low-fre
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Early next week, new rain clouds will come again... Possibility of hea.. 8/11/2022 6:34:00 AM.

The torrential rain, which the Korea Meteorological Administration also described as 'shock and fear', is expected to continue until tomorrow. However, especially after Liberation Day, as a new stagnant front is created, heavy rain may fall
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),