Disasters in Yokohama City (Past Disaster History)

Last Updated March 26, 2024

Every year, the Yokohama City Crisis Management Office compiles records of earthquakes and storms and floods that occurred in the city in a booklet called "Disasters in Yokohama City".
The damage status, emergency response activities, weather conditions, etc. are described for each disaster, and the contents can be used for disaster countermeasures in each region.
On this homepage, we can download PDF file of "disaster of Yokohama-shi" after 2000.

In addition, we make "disaster of Yokohama-shi" from 1975 and, about booklet version, can read in city hall the third floor citizen information center.

You can search for characters from each PDF file.

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Disasters in Yokohama City

※　(Additional postscript on June 25, 2021) Regarding the year 2021 (the first year of Reiwa), there were some errors in the content, so we have corrected it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you. Click here for details of corrections (PDF: 101KB)

Index of each ward

This is a summary of the above-mentioned "Disasters in Yokohama City". About how to read, please see how to read index (PDF: 324KB).

Reference Materials

Earthquake with a seismic intensity of 4 or more that occurred in Yokohama City (PDF: 111KB)(After the Great Kanto Earthquake, 2002: Excerpt from disaster preparedness plan, Yokohama City, "Earthquake Countermeasures")
Wind and flood damage that occurred in Yokohama City (PDF: 206KB)(Taisho 6-2015)

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