TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison of two recent storm surge events based on results of field surveys
AU - Nakamura, Ryota
AU - Shibayama, Tomoya
AU - Mikami, Takahito
AU - Esteban, Miguel
AU - Takagi, Hiroshi
AU - Maell, Martin
AU - Iwamoto, Takumu
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was carried out by using financially support from the program for the Strategic Research Foundation grant for Private Universities from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT; No. S1311028, Tomoya Shibayama). Also, the authors appreciate the members who joined in both field surveys.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Author(s).
PY - 2017/10/16
Y1 - 2017/10/16
N2 - This paper compares two different types of storm surge disaster based on field surveys. Two cases: a severe storm surge flood with its height of over 5 m due to Typhoon Haiyan (2013) in Philippine, and inundation of storm surge around Nemuro city in Hokkaido of Japan with its maximum surge height of 2.8 m caused by extra-tropical cyclone are taken as examples. For the case of the Typhoon Haiyan, buildings located in coastal region were severely affected due to a rapidly increase in ocean surface. The non-engineering buildings were partially or completely destroyed due to their debris transported to an inner bay region. In fact, several previous reports indicated two unique features, bore-like wave and remarkably high speed currents. These characteristics of the storm surge may contribute to a wide-spread corruption for the buildings around the affected region. Furthermore, in the region where the surge height was nearly 3 m, the wooden houses were completely or partially destroyed. On the other hand, in Nemuro city, a degree of suffering in human and facility caused by the storm surge is minor. There was almost no partially destroyed residential houses even though the height of storm surge reached nearly 2.8 m. An observation in the tide station in Nemuro indicated that this was a usual type of storm surge, which showed a gradual increase of sea level height in several hours without possessing the unique characteristics like Typhoon Haiyan. As a result, not only the height of storm surge but also the robustness of the buildings and characteristics of storm surge, such as bore like wave and strong currents, determined the existent of devastation in coastal regions.
AB - This paper compares two different types of storm surge disaster based on field surveys. Two cases: a severe storm surge flood with its height of over 5 m due to Typhoon Haiyan (2013) in Philippine, and inundation of storm surge around Nemuro city in Hokkaido of Japan with its maximum surge height of 2.8 m caused by extra-tropical cyclone are taken as examples. For the case of the Typhoon Haiyan, buildings located in coastal region were severely affected due to a rapidly increase in ocean surface. The non-engineering buildings were partially or completely destroyed due to their debris transported to an inner bay region. In fact, several previous reports indicated two unique features, bore-like wave and remarkably high speed currents. These characteristics of the storm surge may contribute to a wide-spread corruption for the buildings around the affected region. Furthermore, in the region where the surge height was nearly 3 m, the wooden houses were completely or partially destroyed. On the other hand, in Nemuro city, a degree of suffering in human and facility caused by the storm surge is minor. There was almost no partially destroyed residential houses even though the height of storm surge reached nearly 2.8 m. An observation in the tide station in Nemuro indicated that this was a usual type of storm surge, which showed a gradual increase of sea level height in several hours without possessing the unique characteristics like Typhoon Haiyan. As a result, not only the height of storm surge but also the robustness of the buildings and characteristics of storm surge, such as bore like wave and strong currents, determined the existent of devastation in coastal regions.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5005734
DO - 10.1063/1.5005734
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85037632874
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Global Network for Innovative Technology and AWAM International Conference in Civil Engineering, IGNITE-AICCE 2017
A2 - Aziz, Hamidi Abdul
A2 - Hasan, Mohd Rosli Mohd
A2 - Ramli, Muhd Harris
A2 - Halim, Herni
A2 - Keong, Choong Kok
A2 - Abu Bakar, Badorul Hisham
A2 - Johari, Megat Azmi Megat
A2 - Yusoff, Mohd Suffian
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - International Conference of Global Network for Innovative Technology and AWAM International Conference in Civil Engineering: Sustainable Technology and Practice for Infrastructure and Community Resilience, IGNITE-AICCE 2017
Y2 - 8 August 2017 through 9 August 2017
ER -