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This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics . The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.
The most devastating recorded natural disaster to affect Japan by death toll was the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which killed ~105,000 and a further ~6,000 due to the Kantō Massacre in its immediate aftermath. Japan has also been the site of some of the 10 worst natural disasters of the 21st century.
Man-made disasters in Japan (8 C, 5 P) N. Natural disasters in Japan (10 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Disasters in Japan" This category contains only the following page.
Natural disasters in Japan by prefecture (11 C) D. Natural disaster deaths in Japan (2 C, 9 P) E. Earthquakes in Japan (5 C, 24 P) F. Floods in Japan (8 P) H.
In Japan, the Shindo scale is commonly used to measure earthquakes by seismic intensity instead of magnitude. This is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the United States or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter (its magnitude ...
Nuclear Engineering International reported that all four units were successfully automatically shut down, but emergency diesel generators at the site were out of order. [10] People were evacuated around 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the plant, due to possible radioactive contamination.
2023 disasters in Japan (7 P) 2024 disasters in Japan (13 P) This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 03:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
February 4 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60, a Boeing 727-100, crashed in Tokyo Bay, Japan for reasons unknown; all 133 aboard are killed in Japan's worst air disaster at that time. February 16 – Aeroflot Flight 302 , an Ilyushin Il-14, suffers an engine fire and crashes while attempting an emergency landing on a field near Pechora, killing ...