学会誌「自然災害科学」

1993年7月豪雨によるネパールの自然災害の概要

Natural Disasters Caused by Heavy Rainfall in Nepal at July, 1993

小林 茂*・伊藤 驍**・谷田部 龍一***・高橋 治郎****

Shigeru KOBAYASHI*, Takeshi ITO**, Ryuichi YATABE*** and Jiro TAKAHASHI****

Abstract

On July 19-2lth, 1993, the disasters of the slope failures, debris flows and floods occurred at central and eastern Nepal. The disasters were generated by the localized torrential downpour that the total amount of rainfall was over 700mm. The numbers of deaths and missings are over nineteen hundred persons. In this paper, firstly, the outline of this disasters, rainfall conditions and geology of Nepal are described. Finally, it is pointed out that one of the main cause of heavy disasters is in uncertain informations. Nepal is the first class country of natural disasters. But the investigations on natural hazards are not enough.

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