TY - GEN
T1 - Disaster survey after the cyclone nargis in 2008
AU - Shibayama, Tomoya
AU - Takagi, Hiroshi
AU - Hnu, Ngun
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The cyclone 'Nargis' hit the southern part of Myanmar on May 2nd and 3rd 2008. This devastating cyclone caused enormous number of casualties as well as fatal damages to houses and paddy fields, particularly both the downstream areas of the Irrawaddy and Yangon Rivers. In the present field survey, thought the activities were limited to the area near Yangon city due to certain governmental restrictions, it was found out that the tide due to the storm surge was probably up to 3 - 4m and came up to around 50 kilometers upstream of the river mouth of Yangon River.
AB - The cyclone 'Nargis' hit the southern part of Myanmar on May 2nd and 3rd 2008. This devastating cyclone caused enormous number of casualties as well as fatal damages to houses and paddy fields, particularly both the downstream areas of the Irrawaddy and Yangon Rivers. In the present field survey, thought the activities were limited to the area near Yangon city due to certain governmental restrictions, it was found out that the tide due to the storm surge was probably up to 3 - 4m and came up to around 50 kilometers upstream of the river mouth of Yangon River.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84903734170
SN - 9814287970
SN - 9789814287975
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC 2009
SP - 190
EP - 193
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC 2009
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
T2 - 5th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC 2009
Y2 - 13 October 2009 through 16 October 2009
ER -