Evacuating Tokyo? Forget About It

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banzaitokyo | 8 years, 2 months ago

If a severe earthquake or flood were to occur in Tokyo, how easy would it be to evacuate the city? Answer: Not very.

A government panel is currently conducting a study on what would be involved in evacuating only 5 Tokyo wards in the event of flooding along the Arakawa river.(1) It estimates moving 1.5 million people out of harm’s way would take half a day or longer.

0 | #12765 by Yubi | 8 years, 2 months ago

Tokyo has other problems, too, when it comes to a disaster. During the 2011 earthquake, many highways from Northern /North Eastern Japan to Tokyo got damaged. This resulted in a threat of food shortage, and some people tried to stock up goods making a shortage nearly happen.
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0 | #12783 by BarbaraEbara | 8 years, 2 months ago

I am not shocked by the time frame of this. If something were to ever hit Tokyo, it would just spell out a wave of disasters. People would like be trampled to death. This is what happens when people live and work so closely together.
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0 | #12797 by Tanuki | 8 years, 2 months ago

They should have seen this much earlier :-p. Many people stayed overnight in buildings of Tokyo after the 2011 earthquake stopped trains. Moving people in Tokyo is very hard, because of the huge numbers. This is why I prefer Western Japan. Even the bigger cities are much better.
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