The Damage in Taiwan Caused by Typhoon No. 8(Morakot)

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  • 台湾における2009年台風8号(莫拉克台風)による災害の実態について
  • 台湾における2009年台風8号(莫拉克台風)による災害の実態について--とくに600余人が亡くなった小林村と小学校が全壊した神木村の場合
  • タイワン ニ オケル 2009ネン タイフウ 8ゴウ モーラコット タイフウ ニ ヨル サイガイ ノ ジッタイ ニ ツイテ トクニ 600 ヨジン ガ ナクナッタ ショウリンムラ ト ショウガッコウ ガ ゼンカイ シタ シンボクムラ ノ バアイ
  • —Cases in Xiaolin Cun and Shenmu Cun—
  • ―とくに600余人が亡くなった小林村と小学校が全壊した神木村の場合―

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 Typhoon No.8 (Morakot) that hit the middle-southern part of Taiwan on August 6-11, 2009 caused a large number of deaths and flooding there before it passed by. The most severe damage occurred in two Provinces of Xiaolin Cun and Shenmu Cun, in Kaohsiung County and Nantou cunty respectively. In Xiaolin-Cun the flooding triggered by the heavy rainfall swept away an elementary school.<br> It is not doubt that violent downpour whose probability of the same scale of rainfall is one in 200 years became the immediate cause of the floods and debris disasters.<br> The region's vulnerability to those calamities however was due to the colluvium layers which thickly cover a wide area of the mountainslopes and to the geomorphological characteristics of the terrain, at which the devastated villages and the elementary school were located on low terraces at a relative height of 5m above the recent riverbed.

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