{"id":141036,"date":"2021-06-10T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141036&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:43:29","slug":"flood-maps-for-100-rivers-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/flood-maps-for-100-rivers-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Maps For 100 Rivers in Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture published online flooding maps for one hundred local rivers. As the region has been hit by torrential rainfalls and severe floodings each year since 2007, the prefecture stepped up its disaster prevention efforts. It began providing information for more rivers and surrounding districts. The project expects each municipality to reflect those data to their hazard maps, too. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/sinsui-soutei.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210609\/5010012068.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141037\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/muromi-river.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/muromi-river.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/muromi-river.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/muromi-river.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/muromi-river.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photograph provided by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/showcase.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/en\/photo\/img0056.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fukuoka City.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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As the region has been hit by torrential rainfalls and severe floodings each year since 2007, the prefecture stepped up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141036","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/141036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}