{"id":82049,"date":"2013-03-19T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=34690"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:59:11","slug":"damage-estimates-for-nankai-quake","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/damage-estimates-for-nankai-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage Estimates for Nankai Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Mar. 18 the Cabinet Office released its estimates for physical damages and economic losses in the event of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough. Experts have said a large earthquake in the trough would cause severe damage along the Pacific coast of Japan from Kyushu to Kanto. Assuming a \u201conce-in-1,000-years\u201d earthquake and tsunami equivalent to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck the trough, the government estimated over \u00a5169 trillion in direct damages to buildings and infrastructure, \u00a58.2 trillion of which would be in Kyushu. The economic impact of reduced productivity and transport stoppages is estimated at over \u00a5220 trillion. Nationwide evacuee numbers were calculated at 9.5 million people across 40 prefectures, with numbers in Kyushu expected to reach 525,000. Based on these estimates, the government will formulate a disaster preparedness plan in fiscal 2013. Estimated damages for the prefectures of Kyushu are as follows: \u00a54.8 trillion in Miyazaki, \u00a52 trillion in Oita, \u00a5700 billion in Kagoshima, \u00a5400 billion in Kumamoto, \u00a5200 billion in Fukuoka and \u00a5100 billion each in Saga and Nagasaki. The highest number of anticipated evacuees would be from Miyazaki (350,000) and Oita (140,000). Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Mar. 19 <\/p>\n

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On Mar. 18 the Cabinet Office released its estimates for physical damages and economic losses in the event of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough. Experts have said a large earthquake in the trough would cause severe damage along the Pacific coast of Japan from Kyushu to Kanto. Assuming a \u201conce-in-1,000-years\u201d earthquake and tsunami equivalent to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck the trough, the government estimated over \u00a5169 trillion in direct damages to buildings and infrastructure, \u00a58.2 trillion of which would be in Kyushu. The economic impact of reduced productivity and transport stoppages is estimated at over \u00a5220 trillion. Nationwide evacuee numbers were calculated at 9.5 million people across 40 prefectures, with numbers in Kyushu expected to reach 525,000. Based on these estimates, the government will formulate a disaster preparedness plan in fiscal 2013. Estimated damages for the prefectures of Kyushu are as follows: \u00a54.8 trillion in Miyazaki, \u00a52 trillion in Oita, \u00a5700 billion in Kagoshima, \u00a5400 billion in Kumamoto, \u00a5200 billion in Fukuoka and \u00a5100 billion each in Saga and Nagasaki. The highest number of anticipated evacuees would be from Miyazaki (350,000) and Oita (140,000). Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Mar. 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":34691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82049","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82049","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}