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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.
Of these, 228 deaths were directly attributed to the earthquake, and the other 276 were disaster-related deaths aggravated by fear of aftershocks, electricity and water outages and evacuations to temporary shelters and other locations. [2] [5] It was the deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [6]
Japan on Thursday ended its call for higher-than-usual risks of a major earthquake, one week after a strong tremor on the edge of the Nankai Trough seabed zone caused the government to issue its ...
Following the earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a 'Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information' advisory [23] that the probability of a megathrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough increased from a 0.1% per week to 1% chance [24] in what was the first advisory of its kind but clarified that it was not imminent.
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.
The 2011 triple disasters along Japan's northeastern coast began with a magnitude 9 earthquake offshore that was more than 125 times more powerful than this week's quake in terms of the total ...
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.