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[Disaster Report]Details of effect from Typhoon 26th, October, 2013 in Izu Island

hashimoto — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:22:01 +0000

Typhoon 26th (WIPHA)

Mainly affected area : Oshima-machi(Izu Oshima Island), Tokyo, Japan
The time of occurrence : 　October 15th-16th, 2013
Damage : Mud slide in Izu Oshima late night October 16th due to the torrential rain from Typhoon 26th causing many causalities/death including unknown to locate.

Affect in Oshima-machi (Izu Oshima Island)

(Affect in People)

Death	36
Unknown	3人

(Affect on Buildings and Housings)

Agricultural affect	1,150 million JPY
Small and Medium firms and companies	2,240 million JPY

(Details of the disaster damages)

The most affected area Izu Oshima is a volcanic island; therefore the ground is made of solidified stream of lava and volcanic ashes. Due to the torrential rain caused by the Typhoon 26 the surface layer consisted of volcanic ashes washed off resulting in mass amount of sand slide and mudslide into the residential buildings and houses. This is the major cause of deaths and injuries as well as collapsed buildings. The most affected area is listed as center of island, Motomachi district, as well as Senzu district. The disaster rescue teams from various entities such as the Self-Defense Forces of Japan, Fire fighters and police officers with and without local boundaries have been involving in rescuing and recovering people; however the ground search has been terminated as of November 8th, 2013. Therefore rescuers such as the Self-defense Forces of Japan and Fire fighters have been terminated. It is implicated that the process will be moved on to the next phase of restoration of the communities from the searching and rescue of survivors.

How to support

(How to list for a volunteer or inquires)
Oshima-sha disaster volunteer center:
http://oshima.vc
https://www.facebook.com/oshima.saigaivc
Tokyo disaster volunteer center:　
http://www.tvac.or.jp/special/oshima

(Monetary Donation)
Tokyo District: http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/INET/OSHIRASE/2013/10/20nai900.html
Tokyo-to Oshima-machi: http://www.town.oshima.tokyo.jp/information/20131021.html

[Prompt Report] Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines on November 8th, 2013

hashimoto — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:56:09 +0000

Typhoon HAIYAN

Main Affected Area : Tacloban city, Leyte Island in Philippines
Date : November 8th, 2013

Damage (as at November 10th)

Fatalities : more than 1200 people (estimated by the Philippine Red Cross)

Most damages are caused by high tide water, which maximum tide level is estimated to reach about 5m in Leyte, occurred in the morning on November 8th.
Estimated number of fatalities is more than 1000 people only in Leyte, evacuees is reached to 800,000 people, and four million affected in total according to the announcement of governmental task force.

Because of the cut-off of most roads and all communications except for satellite phones in Leyte, it is impossible to determine the extent of the damage.
The whole-scale of the damage caused by Haiyan in the Philippines is still emerging.

[Disaster Report]the Earthquake on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan (reported: Apr.14, 2013)

hashimoto — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:20:46 +0000

Date-Time: April 13, 2013 at 05:33 Japan time
Location: Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan (Depth: 15km)
Magnitude: 6.3

Intensity (Japanese Scale)

Intensity 6 lower: Awaji-shi (Hyogo Pref.)
Intensity 5 upper: Minamiawaji-shi (Hyogo Pref.)

Damage Situation

Osaka Pref.

human suffering	serious injury	1
human suffering	minor injury	4
building damage (house)	total collapse	0
	half collapse	0
	partially collapse	4

Hyogo Pref.

human suffering	serious injury	6
human suffering	minor injury	12
building damage (house)	total collapse	0
	half collapse	39
	partially collapse	2,275

Other area

human suffering	serious injury	1
human suffering	minor injury	3
building damage (house)	total collapse	0
	half collapse	0
	partially collapse	1

79 houses cut off water supply in Hyogo Prefecture, and the water outage has already recovered at all houses.
Any supports defined by national disaster act are not applied to the afflicted people, because few houses were completely collapsed in the earthquake.

[Disaster Report] Earthquake hit Solomon Islands, and triggered tsunami on 6 Feburary.

hashimoto — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:01:51 +0000

Powerful earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on the 6th of Feburary.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Magnitude of the earthquake was 8.0 and the seismic epicenter was located near the Santa Cruz Islands, a depth of 17.8 miles.

The earthquake brought tsunami.
Local officials reported the tsunami was about 1 ~ 1.5 meters in height.
The tsunami hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island, and it damaged around 70 ~ 80 homes and properties.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported that a tsunami of about 1 meter was mesured in Lata wharf in the Solomons.

At least 5 people died in this earthquake.

In the western Solomon Islands, a magnitude 8.1 quake hit and more than 50 people were killed in April 2007.

[18 years, since the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in 1995] The current situation of the bankrupt companies in the affected areas

hashimoto — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:38:52 +0000

It has been 18 years past since the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. It occurred January 17th, 1995 with the epicenter of southern part of Hyogo prefecture. The most of the damages were reported majorly as the collapsed buildings and the burnt buildings due to the earthquake. The death toll was reported 6434 people, and the economical damages in the area was reported as 9,900,000,000,000 Japanese Yen.

There is a distinctive difference in the type of damages between Hanshin Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake. The majority of damages were reported as collapsed and burnt buildings in Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in 2011 whereas the most of the damages were reported due to the Tsunami effects in the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

The percentage of bankrupt companies after the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Hyogo prefecture

The year of 1995 that Hanshin Awaji Earthquake occurred, the increment percentage of bankrupt companies due to the high Japanese yen currency was reported at the same time. However an unusual situation was observed in Hyogo prefecture in the same year right after the Earthquake. The percentage of bankrupt companies was significantly less than the previous year in Hyogo prefecture despite of the Earthquake occurrence. This unexpected situation may have had occurred due to the implementation of special measures (such as special funding system) which the government introduced as a part of revitalization program. Therefore the potential bankrupt companies had regained longer lifetime at that time. However, as a consequence, the percentage of bankrupt companies eventually started to increase rapidly as of 2 years after the Earthquake.

The number of bankrupt companies due to the Great East Japan Earthquake was reported 1032 as of December 2012. This means that the high monthly average number of 40.5 bankrupt companies has continuously been added every month. In comparison, the average number of bankrupt companies were added 9.2 every month after Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. This high increment rate of the bankrupt companies in the Great East Japan Earthquake forecasts a continued growth of the number for a long period of time.

In the aspect of long-term effects and situation involving bankrupt companies, it is possible that the number of bankrupt companies will continue to grow in the affected area of the Great East Japan Earthquake as similar situations have been witnessed in Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. Consequently, the number of bankrupt companies had risen significantly 2 years after the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake.

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[Disaster Report] Flood caused by heavy rain in Jakarta, Indonesia.

hashimoto — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:12:48 +0000

The heavy monsoonal rain caused flood in Jakarta.

Authorities raised the flood alert to its highest level on 17th of January.
Rains had stopped since 18th afternoon, and the flood has receded in large parts of Jakarta including the city’s business district by 19th.

The floods forced 19,000 people from their homes, and at least 11 people have died. About 250,000 people have been affected by the disaster.

According to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) prediction, heavy rains expected to hit next week and the flood will peak again.

The damage caused by the flood will continue to spread.

Tendency and trend of consumer in purchasing goods after the Great East Japan Earthquake

hashimoto — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:41:44 +0000

In the past, after the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake or any other major natural disasters has occurred, the tendency of “spending less” attitude among the individuals was constantly emphasized; and this tendency has been witnessed more severely and it has impacted many Japanese nations acting “voluntarily refrain from spending” after the Great East Earthquake.
On the other hand, overwhelming needs of replacing or purchasing lost items, lifeline items, emergency supplies, emergency foods for households and companies around the Earthquake stricken areas have been observed. This phenomenon even led to the “sold out” items due to the many individuals buying up items resulting in scarce of items in the market; and the production markets were hardly being able to keep up with the demand.

Currently CIRGLIDGE is conducting a research to determine the types of items that are crucial to the consumers involving natural disasters in order to help the disaster prevention and rehabilitation industries to eventually contribute to the disaster stricken community.
CIRGLIDGE believes that this study will provide vital information to the production and merchant industries to focus on the target items relating in an event of major disasters which unfortunately may happen in future as already being predicted. This research should also contribute to the efficiency and productivity of the items that should be available to the consumers in the timely manner. This conducted research is to mainly serve as a vital tool to the Industries such as the emergency suppliers, outdoor merchants, hardware stores, clothing stores, supermarkets, etc.

Report detail (Extract)

1. Consumer trend in the disaster stricken area after the disaster occurrence

Currently, the increased revenue has been recorded among the major department stores, super markets, home center and appliance stores in the most affected area of Tohoku region. The gross revenue of the department stores across Tohoku region was 190,670,000,000 Japanese Yen in 2011, comparing to the 2010, the difference is minimal of -0.6%. Then its gross revenue was sharply plunged (-43.7% compared to a year before) as of March, 2011 right after the Earthquake and Tsunami occurrence. However, despite of the devastating situation for many residents, the demand of quick restoration and recovery were evidently expressed among the affected residents; and it has lead to the increased gross revenue by May of 2011 among the major retailers, especially the home centers and appliance stores, and super markets.
The gross revenue of the home center businesses has been significantly increasing even after the March of 2011 or even more. According to the TEIKOKU DATABANK (TEIKOKU DATABANK, LTD.), the gross revenue of the 9 major home center companies (which headquarters are located in Tohoku region) was 151,678,000,000 Japanese Yen. This is 12.3% more compared to the previous year. Also in the aspect of a bottom line profit, it is a triple value compared to the previous year among the 7 out of 9 companies. This number implies the unprecedented high demand of purchasing the basic living necessities in order to restore and rehabilitate what they have lost in the Earthquake and Tsunami.

>> Individual consumption after the Earthquake and Tsunami- Data from Fukushima prefecture

- March-April, 2011
There was a tendency to stock up the food, drink, and basic living items in which the circumstances resulted in the scarce of over all items. There was a demand for the emergency supplies due to the continued aftershocks.
- May-August, 2011
The tendency of purchasing has been shifted to the industries of appliances and housing markets. It is evident that the strong demand of purchasing drinks especially the water and the foods that are produced outside the affected region have stayed the same due to the major concern of radiation exposure.

2. The consumption trend in outside the affected areas

In order to examine the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami to the individual, below graph shows and compares the value of gross revenue of merchants after March 2011 and the previous year.

fig. Comparison in the gross revenue of merchants after Earthquake and the previous year

The tendency of quick recovery action has been recorded in the Tohoku region. Despite of plunging value of -22.5% right after the Great East Earthquake occurrence in the March of 2011, this number has improved to +1.5% in May, and +5.8% in July of 2011. However in a comparison, the revenue was less impacting as -6.5% among the rest of Japanese Nations in March of 2011 against the previous year though the quick recovery has been continuously expressed. This shows the different prospect from the trend being seen after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake as there was a minimal impact to the Japanese nations.
The most demanded items were drinks and water, foods, emergency supplies among the affected regions as well as the rest of Japanese nations right after the Earthquake. According to the sources from one of the E-Commerce site selling Health foods and Pharmaceutical items, the most demanded items are, emergency supplies (+2.9%), emergency foods (4.9%) after the earthquake.

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[Disaster Report] Philippines: Overviews of the damage caused by Typhoon Bopha.

hashimoto — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:15:01 +0000

※ Numbers in this article are quoted from the report published by OCHA (Situation Report No.12 as of 31 Dec. 2012).

Outline of the disaster

Most affected Area: Eastern Mindanao in Philippines
Date of landfall: Dec. 4th, 2012
Casualties: 1,067
Affected people: 6.2 million
Missing people: 834
Number of damaged buildings and houses (completely or partially): 216,817
Number of evacuees: 959,267

Overview

The Typhoon Bopha landed in Mindanao island on Dec.4th 2012 causing major devastations and damages in the area. According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the casualties are reported as 1,067, missing persons are 834 as of Dec.31st 2012. The Eastern Part of Mindanao Island was the most severely affected with the damages. The Typhoon Bopha is recorded as the second worst typhoon disaster in the Philippines history next to the Typhoon Washi occurred in December of 2011 in which the deaths was recorded as more than 1200 people.

According to the sources, the delayed response of the Government and the local administration for the natural disaster emergency response department was the major factor to be blamed for this one of the worst case disaster. Evidently there are many criticisms being voiced against the Government and the local administration among the local residents for the Government’s failure judgment and handling.
Today, the power and the electricity are still unavailable in the most of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental areas. Disrupted travel and transportation are also the main concern of causing the isolation of the affected area from the humanitarian assistance. According to the Initial reports from the Philippines’ Department of Health, the rapidly increasing diarrheal disease cases have been reported in the affected areas.

Response

Early Recovery (Clean-up the debris)
Approximately 4,000 people have worked on cleaning up disaster waste in affected area.

Food Assistance
Approximately 800,000 ~ 1,000,000 individuals need food assistance in the worst affected areas.

Water Distribution
35,084 water kits were distributed; however more water kits are continuously needed among affected areas.

Emergency shelter kit distribution
38,800 emergency shelter kits were distributed.

The PDF document of the report is now in preparation.

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hashimoto — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:59:50 +0000

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Restoration of Lifeline supply in the Great East Japan Earthquake — Time taken to restore Electricity, Hydro (Water supply) and Gas

hashimoto — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:10:46 +0000

The lifelines such as electricity, hydro, and gas in tsunami affected areas were heavily interrupted for a long period of time. This report shows the number of household that its lifelines (electricity, hydro, gas) were heavily affected for a several months since the earthquake. The data was collected from Iwate prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, and Fukushima prefecture.

1. Power outage

March 13th 2011, 2days after the earthquake has stricken, the number of household were over 3 million; however the number of affected household decreased to 400,000 after 1 week. Excluding the houses and buildings that were collapsed or washed away due to the tsunami or some remote areas in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, the restoration process was nearly completed in most of the houses by middle of May.

fig.1 The number of Power outage in Tohoku district

2. Water stoppage

More than 700,000 households were affected 1 week after the earthquake and the approximately 200,000 households are still affected as of April. There are approximately 20,000 households in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures have not been restored, and 3000 households in Fukushima has been counted as of the end of 2011. This is a result from mainly the houses and buildings that were washed away and collapsed that it is impossible to restore.

fig.2 The number of Water stoppage in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Pref.

3. Gas stoppage

The report excludes the houses that are unable to restore. More than 400,000 houses are affected in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima prefectures as of March 15th; however the process of restore has been improving day by day. Excluding the houses that are unable to restore, the most of the houses in Iwate prefecture have been restored as of April 12th; and the gas supplies for eligible households has become available in Fukushima prefecture as of April 16th. In Miyagi prefecture, where the most affected area, the restoring process has fully completed as of May 4th.

fig.3 The number of Gas stoppage in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Pref.

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