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Japan Hit Simultaneously With Typhoon And Earthquake
October 12, 2019
Typhoon Hagibis hammers Tokyo, 23 dead
Sixteen people are missing, public broadcaster NHK said, as Typhoon Hagibis left vast swathes of low-lying land in central and eastern Japan inundated and cut power to almost half a million homes.
The Japanese islands were already braced for the landfall of Typhoon Hagibis when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned ahead of Hagibis’ landfall — which they said could deliver rainfall “with a level of intensity observed only once every few decades” — on the main island of Honshu.
Hagibis, which means “swift” in the Philippine language of Tagalog, is expected to cause heavy rains and flooding not seen since a deadly typhoon that struck the islands in 1958.
Military helicopters airlifted stranded people from homes near the river, some cradling their children, after they were trapped by water reaching the roofs of their houses.
In Kawagoe, north of Tokyo, rescuers took residents from a flooded aged care facility by inflatable boats and carried them on their backs to safety. They also searched for survivors in homes destroyed in landslides near Tokyo's suburbs and in Fukushima prefecture, NHK showed.
Authorities at one point issued evacuation advisories and orders for more than six million people across Japan as the storm unleashed the heaviest rain and winds in years. Some 166 people were injured in the aftermath, NHK said.
The storm, which the government said could be the strongest to hit Tokyo since 1958, brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular resort town of Hakone, which was hit with almost 94cm of rain over 24 hours.
But even as Hagibis bore down on the islands, locals reported a natural disaster of an entirely different kind.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6435011/typhoon-hagibis-hammers-tokyo-23-dead/?cs=14232
October 12, 2019
Typhoon Hagibis hammers Tokyo, 23 dead
Sixteen people are missing, public broadcaster NHK said, as Typhoon Hagibis left vast swathes of low-lying land in central and eastern Japan inundated and cut power to almost half a million homes.
The Japanese islands were already braced for the landfall of Typhoon Hagibis when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned ahead of Hagibis’ landfall — which they said could deliver rainfall “with a level of intensity observed only once every few decades” — on the main island of Honshu.
Hagibis, which means “swift” in the Philippine language of Tagalog, is expected to cause heavy rains and flooding not seen since a deadly typhoon that struck the islands in 1958.
Military helicopters airlifted stranded people from homes near the river, some cradling their children, after they were trapped by water reaching the roofs of their houses.
In Kawagoe, north of Tokyo, rescuers took residents from a flooded aged care facility by inflatable boats and carried them on their backs to safety. They also searched for survivors in homes destroyed in landslides near Tokyo's suburbs and in Fukushima prefecture, NHK showed.
Authorities at one point issued evacuation advisories and orders for more than six million people across Japan as the storm unleashed the heaviest rain and winds in years. Some 166 people were injured in the aftermath, NHK said.
The storm, which the government said could be the strongest to hit Tokyo since 1958, brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular resort town of Hakone, which was hit with almost 94cm of rain over 24 hours.
But even as Hagibis bore down on the islands, locals reported a natural disaster of an entirely different kind.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6435011/typhoon-hagibis-hammers-tokyo-23-dead/?cs=14232
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