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A storm surge occurred in the Ariake Sea, and Hakata Bay. The official death toll was 19,113, and injures were 18,625. The heaviest damage occurred at Saga, Omura, Yanagawa, and Fukuoka. This is the worst storm hit in Japanese history. 15,897 [2] Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Earthquake and Tsunami: 11 Mar 2011: 72 km east of Oshika Peninsula ...
A potent winter storm pounded the west coast of central Japan from late last week into the weekend and buried some areas with more than 3 feet of snow (about 1 meter). The heaviest snow fell along ...
On Honshu, the main island of Japan, 142 cm (56 in) of snow was recorded at Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima and 59 cm (23 in) at Suzu, Ishikawa. [13] Temperatures in Tokyo fell to −2.6 °C (27.3 °F), the lowest recorded since 1984. [14] Temperatures fell to record lows across much of western Japan. [13] And Kamikawa in Hokkaido record -32°C. Mt.
On October 12, 2009, Just over 200 herdsmen and 1,000 heads of livestock had been stranded by heavy snowfalls in Ali prefecture in Tibet.The week-long snowfall had accumulated to about 30 centimetres in Pulan County of Ali., with some areas reaching 1 meter depth, according to Xing Xiuyin, head of an armed police detachment stationed in the Tibetan region. 30 soldiers and two snow-clearing ...
A blizzard is defined as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 kilometres per hour (35 mph) and lasting for three hours or more. The list states blizzards in various countries since 1972.
FUKUOKA/YUFU, Japan (Reuters) -Typhoon Shanshan soaked large swathes of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from the storm's ...
Japan is regularly affected by natural disasters, with the country 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.
Map showing Japan's “snow country”. Red indicates prefectures completely inside it; yellow, prefectures partially in it. Snow country (雪国, yukiguni, also, more prosaically, gōsetsu chitai (豪雪地帯, "heavy snowfall zone")) refers to areas in Japan characterized by heavy, long-lasting snowfalls.