Overall Orange alert Flood
in Japan

Event summary

This flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1000208
Glide number: FL-2018-000082-JPN
Death: 179
Displaced: 11200
Countries: Japan
From - To 05 Jul - 11 Jul

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 184 | About casualties: 107 | Last hour: 0

Recent flooding highlights power of social media in a disasterSat, 14 Jul 2018 16:36:00 +0200.

Online users in Japan followed the storms that lead to devastating floods and landslides in the western part of the country closely as they unfolded last week. The topic remained central to discussion on social media as the days went on and
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Death toll in Japan flood disaster climbs to 209Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:01:00 +0200.

The death toll from torrential rains and floods in western Japan has reached 209, Japanese media reported on Saturday. Citing the National Police Agency, Tokyo-based The Japan Times reported that 209 people are confirmed dead, with many oth
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Thousands of volunteers arriving in flood-hit areasSat, 14 Jul 2018 10:19:00 +0200.

Thousands of volunteers started arriving Saturday in western Japan regions hit by the country's worst rain disaster in decades to help residents clean up. Prefectural governments in hard-hit Ehime, Hiroshima and Okayama expect some 18,000 v
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Thousands of volunteers arrive to help in flood-hit areas of western J ... Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:43:00 +0200.

OSAKA – Thousands of volunteers started arriving Saturday in western Japan regions hit by the country’s worst rain disaster in decades to help residents clean up. Prefectural governments in hard-hit Ehime, Hiroshima and Okayama expect some
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

09/Jul/2018 07:36 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),