Metropolis
Tokyo
Japan · Asia
Tokyo is a metropolis of Japan, in Asia. It spans the Philippine Sea and Okhotsk plates. Records include 5 volcanoes, 28 tsunamis observed on its coasts and 1 cyclone crossing it with hurricane-force winds.
Tectonic Plates
Hazard Levels
Hazard level assessed by ThinkHazard! (World Bank, GFDRR), meaning the likelihood of a damaging event, from very low to high.
- River FloodHigh
- Urban FloodHigh
- Coastal FloodHigh
- EarthquakeHigh
- LandslideHigh
- TsunamiHigh
- VolcanoHigh
- WildfireHigh
- Extreme HeatMedium
- Water ScarcityLow
Volcanoes (5)
Tsunamis Observed on Its Coasts
- 2023East Mindanao Island, Philippines · 0.3 m3 deaths
- 2022Tonga Islands, Tonga · 22.0 m6 deaths
- 2002Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea · 5.5 m4 deaths
- 2001South Peru, Peru · 8.8 m103 deaths
- 2000Kozu-Shima Island, Honshu, Japan · 0.1 m1 deaths
- 1998Papua New Guinea · 15.0 m1,636 deaths
- 1997Santa Cruz Is. Vanuatu, Solomon Islands · 3.0 m
- 1996Irian Jaya, Indonesia · 7.7 m164 deaths
- 1995Northern Chile, Chile · 3.0 m3 deaths
- 1995Ryukyu Islands, Japan · 2.6 m
- 1994South Kuril Islands, Russia · 10.4 m11 deaths
- 1993Guam, Mariana Islands, United States of America · 2.4 m
Tropical Cyclones
- 2019Typhoon HagibisCat. 5
Sources: Natural Earth · Smithsonian GVP · NOAA NCEI · IBTrACS · GEM · Bird (2003), PB2002