Japan Meteorological Agency

JMA Information on Disaster Risk Reduction
Real-time Risk Map
Landslide / Inundation / Flood

Daily / one week Forecasts

Action to be taken
when Weather Warnings / Advisories are issued

Tropical Cyclone Information

AlartLevel

Action to be taken
by municipalities

Action to be taken by residents

Emergency Safety
Measures

Evacuate before Alart Level 5 is issued.
(A life-threatening situation in which safe
evacuation is no longer possible.)

Snow
Analysis / Forecasts

Warnings/Advisories

120 hours
ahead

Weather Warnings/Advisories

96 hours
ahead・Heavy rain emergency warning

72 hours
ahead

・Landslide alert information
・Storm surge emergency warning
・Storm surge warning

4 eq.

Evacuation
Instruction

All residents should evacuate from affected areas
when or before Evacuation Instruction is issued.

・Heavy rain warning (landslide)・Flood warning
・Storm surge advisory

3 eq.

Evacuation of theElderly, Etc.

Elderly people, those with disabilities, and others
who may need more time to evacuate shouldevacuate from affected areas when Evacuation ofthe Elderly, Etc. is issued.

2Prepare for
emergency response

Check evacuation action with a hazard map etc.

1

Prepare for disaster

Prepare for disaster5 eq.

Marine Warnings==== Be sure to evacuate by Alert Level 4 ! ====

48 hoursahead
24 hoursahead(when possibility to become warning is high)

5-day track and intensity forecast

・Heavy rain advisory
・Flood advisory
・Storm surge advisory

Updated every hour(when possibility to become warning is not reffered)・Probability of warnings

Multilingual Information on DRR via the JMA WebsiteWeather

LandslideThunder

Heavy Rain

Heavy Snow

Available
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Earthquake / Tsunami

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Earthquake
Earthquake

JMA multi

TsunamiEarthquake Early Warning

SmartphoneTV

Publicannouncement

Japanese seismic intensity scale

・The time of earthquake occurrence・Regions where seismic intensity of 3or greater have been observed

Tsunami warning/AdvisoriesМонгол хэл
Active Volcanoes

Perceptibleindoors

Generalfeeling ofalarm

Difficulty Structural instability
standing or collapse ofwooden structureswith low earthquake
resistance

Volcanic warning / forecast

Tsunami warning

Volcanic Warnings and Alert Levels

Sakurajima

Satsuma-Iojima

Tsunami Information

・Estimated arrival times/heights
・Recorded tsunami data

Information on Seismic Intensity
for individual locations

Volcano50 active volcanoes in Japan arecontinuously monitored by JMA.

2 to 3minutes

Around5 minutes
onwardរWhen unusual phenomena areobserved, JMA issues Volcanic
Warnings specifying target areas
for caution.

Earthquakee Early Warnings (EEWs) are broadcast via
various channels to help people take protective action.

Seismic Intensity Informationनेपाली भाषाhttps://www.jma.go.jp/jma/kokusai/multi.html

A matter ofseconds
1.5 to 2minutesြမန်မာဘာသာစကား

Kuchinoerabujima

The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
On March 11 at 14:46 (JST), there was a M9.0
earthquake at a depth of approximately 25km, off-shoreof Sanriku.

Signs

・The tremor’s hypocenter and magnitude
・Individual locations where seismic intensity
levels of 1 or greater have been observed
Tsumami hazard zone

Tsumami refuge building/area

Tsumami Flag

VolcanoKeyword

Target municipalities and ward,etc.

Kuchinoerabujima

Level 3 (Donot approachthe volcano)Kagoshima Prefecture:Yakushima
Town(Near-crater Warning: Do not
approach the volcano, etc.)

Date and time ofissuance2023/07/10
16:00

Sakurajima

Level 3 (Donot approachthe volcano)Kagoshima Prefecture:Kagoshima
City(Near-crater Warning: Do not
approach the volcano, etc.)

2022/07/27
20:00