Severe weather in Japan 2018

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Severe weather in Japan 2018
( Japanese 平 成 30 年 7 月 豪雨 )
Precipitation values ​​according to the Japanese Meteorological Authority
Precipitation values ​​according to the Japanese Meteorological Authority
storm Heavy rain with subsequent floods and landslides
Data
Beginning June 28, 2018
Precipitation maximum 6./7. July 2018
The End July 9, 2018
consequences
affected areas Ryūkyū , Kyūshū , Shikoku , Chūgoku , Kinki , Chūbu
Victim > 215 fatalities
Damage amount > 119.8 billion ¥ agricultural damage

The storm in Japan 2018 ( Japanese 平 成 30 年 7 月 豪雨 Heisei 30-nen 7-gatsu Gōu ; about "Heavy rains in July of Heisei 30") caused severe damage in the west of the country due to flooding and claimed more than 200 deaths. The prefectures of Hiroshima , Okayama, and Ehime were particularly hard hit ; a total of over 8 million residents were asked to leave their homes and seek emergency shelters. The floods were caused in part by the typhoon "Prapiroon" ( 平 成 30 年 台風 第 7 号 Heisei 30-nen Taifū dai-7-gō ; about “7th typhoon of the year Heisei 30”), which reached western Japan on July 3 and caused heavy rains. Combined with the already heavy and persistent rainfall in this region, many streams, rivers and lakes overflowed and led to flash floods that destroyed buildings by the water masses and landslides .

In terms of the number of victims, this storm is the worst in Japan since 1982, when 299 people died in Nagasaki Prefecture . The Meteorological Authority (short JMA ) warned in advance before "unprecedented rains" and after 5 July more than 100,000 residents of the prefectures of Osaka and Hyogo advised to leave their homes. Similar floods had already led to 40 deaths on the island of Kyūshū in 2017 .

course

Precipitation history from July 3rd to 9th (data from MLIT )

The onset of heavy rainfall goes back to June 28, 2018, when it had rained for an unusually long time in northern Kyūshū. Also on June 28, near the Okinotorishima atoll in the Pacific , east of Taiwan , typhoon "Prapiroon" occurred, which reached Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan on July 3 . As a result, several regions recorded the highest levels of precipitation since records began. B. 1800 mm in Shikoku and 1200 mm in Tōhoku . For the affected prefectures with precipitation values of more than 1000 mm in some cases , the JMA issued “emergency severe weather warnings” ( 特別 警報Tokubetsu Keihō ; Eng. Emergency Warning ) on July 6 ; these were Okayama, Hiroshima, Tottori , Fukuoka , Saga , Nagasaki, Hyōgo, Kyōto , Gifu , Kōchi and Aichi . The water masses reached heights of up to 5 m on July 5th and 6th and forced many residents who had not left their houses on time to stay on their roofs. The heavy rains gradually ended on July 9th and were then replaced by a heat wave , which made rescue work even more difficult and also became dangerous for evacuees and volunteers due to the risk of heat stroke .

Dimensions

Victims and property damage

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (center) on July 11 in the disaster area ...
... and in an emergency shelter in Okayama Prefecture

Since July 5th, the JMA had expressly warned of life-threatening rainfall and urged residents of the affected regions to be particularly careful. A total of 8 million people were recommended to get to safety. About 70% of the fatalities are over 60 years old. As of July 20, 2018, according to the Ministry of the Interior , the rains had the following effects, depending on the affected prefecture:

prefecture Victim Property damage
dead Missing Injured Residential buildings Other buildings
Heavy Light Unknown Completely
destroyed 		Partly
destroyed 		Easily
destroyed 		Public
buildings 		Other
Hokkaidō 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
Akita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Fukushima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
Fukui 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
Nagano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Gifu 1 0 2 1 0 3 4th 112 0 1
Shiga 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kyoto 5 0 1 6th 1 13 10 55 0 0
Osaka 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 9 0 8th
Hyogo 2 0 2 9 0 6th 7th 23 0 0
Nara 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Wakayama 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 11
Tottori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
Shimane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
Okayama 61 3 8th 152 0 2530 26th 50 0 0
Hiroshima 106 8th 29 79 0 260 293 463 0 0
Tokushima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 0 0
Kagawa 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 8th 0 0
Ehime 26th 0 3 6th 2 29 164 20th 0 0
Kōichi 3 0 0 1 0 10 42 32 0 0
Fukuoka 4th 0 6th 14th 0 9 17th 122 3 8th
saga 2 0 1 4th 0 1 3 14th 0 3
Nagasaki 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 4th 1 0
Kumamoto 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 4th 2 4th
Ōita 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 3 0 1
Miyazaki 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kagoshima 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 0 1
Okinawa 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
total 215 11 57 295 3 2866 572 950 6th 42

Infrastructure

The reopened San'yō-Autobahn on July 16, in the area of ​​the central guardrail and on the roadway, remnants of the mud can still be seen
Cleaning up the national road No. 486 in Kurashiki (on the left the condition on July 16 and on the right on July 18)

The floods and landslides damaged large parts of the infrastructure in western Japan and, in the meantime, led to food shortages due to power outages and blocked transport routes. In some places there was mainly a lack of clean drinking water, which was urgently needed due to the heat wave from July 9th. The energy supply company Chūgoku Denryoku reported on July 8 that the electricity had failed in their operation in 18,800 houses; According to NTT West , around 12,400 power lines were unusable in the period from July 7th to 8th due to damage. Many roads, including several motorways and railway lines, were flooded with mud and had to be closed for several days. The San'yō Shinkansen was shut down on July 7th, so that Tōkaidō Shinkansen trains coming from Tokyo Station only drove to Shin-Osaka , the Shinkansen trains being unused by the West Japan Railway Company ( JR West for short ) as temporary ones Overnight accommodations provided for evacuees. 10 lines of the JR West had to be taken out of service for several months, including the San'yō main line . The Hiroshima airport itself was not damaged, but had 6 to 8 July total of 1,500 people in the airport building to stay because the access roads were flooded.

The following highways of the West Nippon Expressway Company ( 西 日本 高速 道路 株式会社 Nishi Nihon Kōsoku-dōro kabushiki-gaisha ) were badly damaged as a result of the storm:

Cancellation of planned events

In the sport were among other things several games of the Central League ( baseball ), the z. B. should take place in the Nagoya Dome , as well as the J2 League , J3 League and the Kaiser Cup ( football ) canceled due to the storm. The signing of the EU-Japan free trade agreement was postponed from Brussels to Tokyo and postponed for several days because Prime Minister Shinzō Abe canceled his planned trip to Europe in order to coordinate the rescue measures for the storm and to be able to visit the disaster area. At the military parade on the French National Day in Paris , to which Abe had been invited, he was represented by Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno .

Economic damage

Mitsubishi Motors , Mazda , Daihatsu , Panasonic and other companies closed their production facilities in the meantime due to delivery difficulties and excessive risks for their employees. The agricultural damage alone amounted to a total of 119.8 billion yen on July 22 (about 92.1 billion €, exchange rate from July 2018).

Rescue operations

Rescue workers working in the disaster area

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe convened a disaster cabinet meeting on July 8 for the first time since the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016 and spoke of a “race against time”. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced on July 10 that the government had allocated ¥ 2 billion (about € 15.3 million) to improve transportation and food supplies and an emergency fund of ¥ 400 billion (about € 3.1 billion) to general disaster management. Around 54,000 self-defense forces , police , fire brigade and coast guard searched for missing persons and cleared up rubble. Despite the very humid weather with temperatures of up to 40 ° C, thousands of volunteers helped with the clean-up work.

International aid

Several countries such as Taiwan , China , the Philippines and the United States supported the Japanese emergency services in the rescue measures and also made financial resources available for disaster management.

Web links

Commons : Severe Weather in Japan 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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