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The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel ( Japanese: 首都圏外郭放水路, Hepburn: shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro), popularly known as G-Cans, is an underground water infrastructure project in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan. It is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to mitigate overflowing of the ...
List of urban rail systems in Japan. The 12.5 km quadruple-track section of the Keihan Main Line between Tenmabashi and the Neyagawa Signal Box is branded entirely as the "Keihan Main Line", and is counted only once in this list. East of Mitaka, rapid and local services on the Chūō Main Line in the Greater Tokyo Area are segregated from each ...
A map of 24-hour rainfall totals, from 9 p.m. EDT Thursday to 9 p.m. EDT Friday, shows the excessive rainfall amounts across New York City, leading to travel chaos on Friday.
The rainfall was coming down at a rate of one to 2.5 inches an hour in some places. From 8am- 9am, the Brooklyn Navy Yard received 2.58in of rain, said Rohit Aggarwala, Commissioner of New York ...
Property damage. Around 82 billion yuan ( US$ 12.7 billion) [5] China's Henan Province experienced flooding between 17 and 31 July 2021 as a result of heavy rainfall. On July 20, Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, recorded 201.9 millimetres (7.95 in) of rainfall within an hour, the highest ever figure recorded since measurements began in 1951.
A state of emergency was declared across areas of New York on Friday as storms poured into the tristate area, flooding streets, homes and businesses as this became the wettest September in New ...
Torrential rain pounded southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two people dead and at least six others missing, officials said Monday. Rain falling in the regions of ...
In Japan, the Shindo scale is commonly used to measure earthquakes by seismic intensity instead of magnitude. This is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the United States or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter (its magnitude ...