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Preparation for typhoons and heavy rains

Last Updated September 10, 2021

Check 1. Daily preparation-Let's prepare for emergencies~

Let's check your home and shelter on the hazard map!

Be careful when considering evacuation routes

  • Check multiple evacuation routes so that you can evacuate to two or more evacuation centers.
  • Avoid roads that may be closed due to flooding due to heavy rain or landslides.

Map

Let's check the items to be taken out during evacuation!

  • Prepare items to be taken out during evacuation on a daily basis so that you can take them out immediately.
  • Let's keep the items to the minimum necessary. (Radio, drinking water, flashlights, pharmaceuticals, baby supplies, etc.)

Exhibited items

Let's work together to protect our town!

  • In the event of an emergency, cherish your relationship with your neighbors on a daily basis so that you can help each other.
  • Create a system that can cooperate in the community in order to protect the safety of people who are difficult to respond flexibly, such as evacuation behavior in the event of a disaster due to disability or elderly people.
  • Let's talk about the cooperation system in the event of a disaster with nearby social welfare facilities in the community on a daily basis.
  • disaster drill, evacuation drill, and lectures will be held to acquire knowledge about disaster prevention.
  • When evacuation warning comes out, call out to the neighborhood and take the initiative in evacuating.

Help each other

Let's register in the disaster prevention information e-mail!

We provide disaster prevention information to registered e-mails on PCs and mobile phones.
You can register from the link below.
Registration of Yokohama City Disaster Prevention Information Email

Check 2. If heavy rain falls ~ Let's be careful about this point ~

Let's try to collect information frequently on your own!

Please check the information frequently on the Japan Meteorological Agency website and the Yokohama City website.

Be especially careful if you receive earth and sand disaster warning information.
Click here for earth and sand disaster alert information (Japan Meteorological Agency homepage) (outside site)

Information gathering

Let's be careful about the condition of the cliff!

A phenomenon of a landslide

  • Pebbles fall from the cliff.
  • New spring water is generated on the slope.
  • The spring water is muddy.
  • There is a crack on the slope.

Precursors

If there is any precursor such as the above, take evacuation action as soon as possible.

In addition, there may be no time from the occurrence of a precursory phenomenon to the occurrence of a landslide, or there may be no precursory phenomenon and a landslide may occur.
If you feel danger, take early evacuation actions.

Let's try to evacuate safely without overdoing it!

When evacuating, wear comfortable clothes and try to act with two or more people.
If the surroundings are dark and the flooding has already begun, do not force yourself to go out and stay in a high place where you can secure safety, such as the second floor of your home.

Evacuation by two or more people

2nd floor or higher


Let's evacuate on a safe route!

  • At the time of evacuation, avoid roads along rivers and cliffs and underground roads.
  • Heavy rain may cause gutters and manholes on the road to come off, so be careful not to approach them.

Check 3. When evacuation information comes out-Evacuation behavior to save lives-

The name of evacuation information has been partially changed.

Following the damage of Typhoon No. 19 in 2019, the Cabinet Office examined measures against storm and flood damage, and the revised "Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law" was enforced on May 20, 2021, and the "Name of evacuation information" at the alert level was changed. I will let you know.

Details of the changes

Cabinet Office Disaster Prevention Information Homepage (outside site)

◆Details of changes

New

Old

Evacuation of elderly people, etc.

"Evacuation preparations, evacuation of elderly people, etc."

"evacuation warning,"

evacuation warning (emergency) and evacuation warning

"Emergency Safety"

Disaster Occurrence Information


Evacuation Information

Estimation of evacuation information and your actions
Evacuation InformationEstimated announcementYour actions
Evacuation of elderly people, etc.

[River flooding]
・When the water level reaches the "evacuation judgment water level" and the water level is expected to continue to rise due to rainfall in the upstream area.
・When water leakage is found
・When it is expected that the evacuation warning will be issued from night to dawn
[Landslide Disaster]
・When it is expected that "earth and sand disaster alert information" will be announced between sunset and sunrise
・Even in the daytime, typhoons are expected to announce "earth and sand disaster alert information", which may hinder evacuation due to the effects of wind and rain, and it is necessary to call on citizens to evacuate as soon as possible.

It is time for people other than the elderly to start with their usual actions as needed, prepare for evacuation, and evacuate voluntarily if they feel danger.
evacuation warning[River flooding]
・When the water level reaches the “flood danger water level” and the water level is expected to continue to rise due to rainfall in the upstream area.
・When there is a risk of flooding due to a sudden rise in water level when the water level exceeds the "inundation caution water level"
・When abnormal water leakage is discovered
・When a typhoon approaches and passes at dawn from night when it exceeds the "flood warning water level", and a large amount of rainfall is expected, such as the announcement of a heavy rain warning, etc.
[Landslide Disaster]
・When earth and sand disaster alert information is announced
・When a heavy rain warning (earth and sand disaster) has been announced and record short-term heavy rain information is announced.
・When a precursor to a landslide disaster is discovered
Evacuate everyone from dangerous places.
If it is difficult to evacuate to evacuation sites, evacuate to the second floor or higher of the building (the room opposite the slope).
Emergency safety

[River flooding]
・When "emergency" is required to ensure safety, such as vertical movement.
・In situations where a disaster is imminent
・Koshimizu, when there is a risk of flooding
・When the risk of collapse increases due to abnormal water leakage, cracks, slides, etc.
・Rupture, outbreak of Koshimizu and flooding
・When "Inundation Information" is announced
・When malfunctions of facilities such as gutters and sluice gates are found
[Landslide Disaster]
・When seeking action to ensure "emergency" safety, such as vertical movement, etc.
・In situations where a disaster is imminent
・When landslide warning information has been announced and record short-term heavy rain information is announced.
・When a precursor to a landslide disaster is discovered
・When evacuation and evacuation by evacuation warning is not sufficient and it is necessary to encourage residents to evacuate again.

Take the "best action to save your life."
If it is difficult to evacuate to evacuation sites, evacuate to the second floor or higher of the building (the room opposite the slope).

Information gathering

In Yokohama City, when communicating evacuation warning, etc. to citizens, the following means are used.

  • Provision of information via "Emergency Bulletin Mail"
    Information will be delivered to mobile phones that support emergency bulletin emails in the target area. Please check the following to see if your mobile phone is compatible.
    About emergency bulletin mail
  • Provision of information through data broadcasting of TV Kanagawa
  • Information provision via "Homepage" and "Twitter"
    We distribute evacuation warning and others through the Yokohama City Crisis Management Office website and Twitter.
    About the transmission of disaster-related information by Twitter
  • Provision of information via television, radio, etc.
  • Information provision by public relations vehicles, etc.
    We carry out call by public information car or fire engine.

voluntary evacuation

As for sediment-related disasters,voluntary evacuation should be immediately started without waiting for evacuation warning if a different precursor is found.

Based on the lessons learned from Typhoon No. 18 in October 2014, Yokohama City decided to extract cliffs that could cause significant damage to houses in the event of a landslide, and to issue a "evacuation warning" with the announcement of "Earthquake Disaster Warning Information" to the surrounding area.
It does not mean that the area where evacuation warning has not been issued is safe. In the event of a heavy rain or typhoon, pay attention to disaster prevention information and take evacuation actions as soon as possible at your own discretion.

Areas subject to evacuation warning and selection criteria

◇List of target areas (list of text format and map)
◇Target area (ArcGIS Online) (external site)
The target area map may be difficult to browse, such as when a large number of access is concentrated.
If you cannot browse, please contact the ward office General Affairs Division listed below for details of the area.

Contact information
Contact informationPhone numberContact informationPhone number
Tsurumi Ward General Affairs Division510‐1656Kanazawa Ward General Affairs Division788-7706
Nishi Ward General Affairs Division320‐8310Kohoku Ward General Affairs Division540-2206
Naka Ward General Affairs Division224-8112Midori Ward General Affairs Division930-2208
Minami Ward General Affairs Division341-1222Tsuzuki Ward   General Affairs Division948-2211
Konan Ward General Affairs Division847‐8315Totsuka Ward General Affairs Division866-8307
Hodogaya Ward General Affairs Division334-6203Sakae Ward General Affairs Division894-8311
Isogo Ward General Affairs Division750-2311Aoba Ward General Affairs Division978-2213

Selection criteria for the target area
◆In this survey, the field survey of cliffs existing in sediment-related disaster warning areas in all wards of the city has been completed.
Immediate review of areas subject to evacuation warning will be carried out at any time depending on the status of measures taken at cliffs.
[End year of survey of each ward]
Surveyed in FY2014: Nishi Ward, Minami Ward, Isogo Ward
Surveyed in FY2015: Hodogaya Ward, Kanazawa Ward, Naka Ward, Konan Ward, Midori Ward, Tsuzuki Ward  
Surveyed in FY2016: Kohoku Ward, Sakae Ward, Tsurumi Ward, Kanagawa Ward, Asahi Ward, Totsuka Ward
Surveyed in FY2017: Aoba Ward, Izumi Ward, Seya Ward

Requests from City Halls and Ward Offices

  • In weather that requires caution, such as heavy rain, storm, or heavy wind and snow, please refrain from going out unnecessarily because it is dangerous.
  • About events hosted by city hall or ward office, it is canceled in principle at the time of heavy rain, storm, heavy wind and snow.
  • In the event of heavy rain, storm, or heavy wind and snow, disaster response work will be performed, and regular work will be performed with a limited number of personnel. Therefore, at the ward office window, the waiting time will be longer, there will be office work that cannot be processed on the same day, and may cause inconvenience to citizens. Please be aware in advance.
[Contact]
ContentsDepartment namePhone numberE-mail address

Details of areas subject to evacuation warning
About it

Each ward office General Affairs DivisionPlease refer to the above.-

To evacuation warning, etc.
Things related to

General Affairs Bureau Emergency Response Division045-671-2064
(Weekdays from 9:00 to 17:00)

so-kinkyu@city.yokohama.jp

Thing about field investigation of cliff ground

Housing and Architecture Bureau Building Disaster Prevention Section045-671-2948

kc-kenchikubousai@city.yokohama.jp

Link: About cliff disaster prevention (City of Yokohama, Housing and Architecture Bureau Building Disaster Prevention Section)

Inquiries to this page

Emergency Response Division, Crisis Management Department, General Affairs Bureau

Telephone: 045-671-2064

Telephone: 045-671-2064

Fax: 045-641-1677

Email address: so-kinkyu@city.yokohama.lg.jp

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