Gunma Tochioka kills three people due to landslide October 16:22
Due to Typhoon No. 19, in the Takumi district of Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, the landslide of Urayama collapsed and flowed into 8 houses, and three people died. Tomioka City has not issued an evacuation advisory to this area and will verify that there were no problems in the future.
In Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, due to Typhoon No. 19, the amount of rain that occurred in the 24-hour period until 5:00 pm on the 12th of this month rose to nearly 400 mm by the rain gauge installed by the prefecture, and only 3 days of annual precipitation in just one day. I've reached a minute.
Prefectures issued landslide disaster warning information to Tomioka City at 9:50 am on the 12th, and Tomioka City issued evacuation instructions and evacuation recommendations to landslide disaster caution areas and inundation assumed areas after noon. However, the evacuation advisories were not issued because the districts where the landslide had occurred were not included in these areas.
Although this area was not a steep slope that was designated as a landslide disaster warning area on a gentle slope, landslides occurred in this typhoon, and three people in this area died.
In the future, Tomioka City plans to identify dangerous areas in each region.
Kazuo Nakajima, General Manager of the Tomioka City General Affairs Department, said, “We take it seriously. It ’s not good for the past. I want to work on it. "