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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.
Japan is regularly affected by natural disasters, with the country also being in the Ring of Fire.Two out of the five most expensive natural disasters in recent history have occurred in Japan, in 1995 (~6,500 deaths) and 2011 (~20,000 deaths) – the latter of which had also triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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.
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
2010s disasters in Japan (8 C) 2020s disasters in Japan (5 C) This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 03:12 (UTC). Text ...