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SYMPOSIUM PHOTO INTERPRETATION, DELFT 1962 
Fig. 2. Map showing the Nobi Plain 
Nagoya and the surrounding area were devastated by the high tide of the Ise- 
wan Typhoon. The tide is reported to have been as high as 5.15 m in the har 
bour at Nagoya. In the disaster, 5,200 people were drowned, and property 
losses amounted to 530,000 million yen (about $ 1,472,000,000). 
The characteristics of the flood (the direction of the flood current, variations 
in the inundation, duration, and depth of stagnant water), were found to be 
almost exactly the same as could be predicted from the flood prevention map. 
Thus local landforms, such as plateaux, terraces, valley plains, fans, natural 
levees, back swamps and deltas have a definite effect on the inundation of the 
area. 
The relationship between “Tsunami” inundation and landform 
On 24th May, 1960, the abnormal tidal waves, or “Tsunami”, caused by