OCHA Regional Office for Asia Pacific JAPAN: Natural Hazard Risks Issued: 09 March 2007
#Medvezhia ##Baransky Seismic, Volcanic and Tropical Storm Risk Atsonupuri# All Natural Hazard Risks #Tiatia UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Shiretoko-Iwo-zan# The bar chart below shows the degree of exposure to Regional Office for Asia Pacific (ROAP) natural hazards and the percentage of area affected. Tokachi Akan Executive Suite, 2nd Floor, UNCC Building Sapporo # # Tsunamis and storm surges are a threat to coastal Rajdamnern Nok Ave, Bangkok 10200, Thailand !( 12 regions, particularly gulfs, bays, and estuaries. Flood http://ochaonline.un.org/roap Usu# #Shikotsu hazard results from river floods and torrential rain. Drought is caused by major deviations from the normal #Komaga-take Japanese Prefectures amounts of precipitation. Frost hazard depends on 1. Aichi 25. Miyazaki elevation and latitude. 2. Akita 26. Nagano 3. Aomori 27. Nagasaki DPR 3 4. Chiba 28. Nara 5. Ehime 29. Niigata Akita-Yake-yama KOREA ## 6. Fukui 30. Oita 2 # 7. Fukuoka 31. Okayama 16 Pyongyang Chokai 8. Fukushima 32. Okinawa \! # # 9. Gifu 33. Osaka 10. Gunma 34. Saga 45 24 11. Hiroshima 35. Saitama # !( 12. Hokkaido 36. Shiga Azuma Sendai Seoul # 13. Hyogo 37. Shimane \! 29 8 14. Ibaraki 38. Shizuoka #Nasu 15. Ishikawa 39. Tochigi # 16. Iwate 40. Tokushima RO Kyoto 43 # 39 17. Kagawa 41. Tokyo 15 # 10 # 26 14 Tokyo (41) 18. Kagoshima 42. Tottori KOREA 6 9 # 35 19. Kanagawa 43. Toyama 47 \!!( 20. Kochi 44. Wakayama 42 13 22 Nagoya 19 4 21. Kumamoto 45. Yamagata Hiroshima 37 36 !( 31 !( 1 38 #Izu-Tobu 22. Kyoto 46. Yamaguchi 11 !\!( !( #Oshima 23. Mie 47. Yamanashi !( 23 24. Miyagi 46 17 28 #Miyake-jima Fukuoka 40 !( 5 20 44 Osaka (33) 34 30 Kobe 27 # Unzen (c) 2006, Munich Reinsurance Company, Geo Risks Nagasaki !( # # 0300150 Aso Research Department 21 # 25 Bayonnaise Rocks Kilometers 18 # # Smith Rock Sakura-jima # Legend Earthquake Intensity Tropical Storm Intensity Kikai# Modified Mercalli Scale Saffir-Simpson Scale Tori-shima !\! OCHA office or presence Kuchinoerabu-jima# # Degree I-V One: 118-153 kmh Nakano-shima Country capital # \! Degree VI Two: 154-177 kmh Suwanose-jima# !( Major town or city Degree VII Three: 178-209 kmh International boundary Degree VIII Four: 210-249 kmh Demarcation line Degree IX-XII Five: 250+ kmh Iwo-Tori-shima# Province boundary # Holocene volcano #Nishino-shima Earthquake intensity zones indicate where there is a 20% probability that degrees of intensity shown on the map will be exceeded in 50 years. #Kaitoku Seamount Storm Season: June to Nov Tropical storm intensity zones indicate where there is a 10% probability of a storm of this Peak month: August Kita-Iwo-jima # intensity striking in the next 10 years. Iriomote-jima #Iwo-jima # Kita-Fukutokutai Datum: WGS84. Map data source: UN Cartographic Section, Global Discovery, FAO, ## 32 Fukutoku-Okanoba Smithsonian Institute, Pacific Disaster Center, UNISYS, Munich Reinsurance Group
The names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Map Ref: OCHA_JPN_Hazard_v1_070309