1923 Great Kantō earthquake - Wikipedia
The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin, Kantō ō-jishin) also known in Japanese as Kantō daishinsai (関東大震災)[11][12] struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between ...
Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923 | Death Toll & Facts
2024年11月9日 · Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The death toll from the temblor was estimated to have exceeded 140,000. More than half of the brick buildings and one-tenth of the reinforced.
The Great Japan Earthquake of 1923 - Smithsonian
The date was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. The initial jolt was...
Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake kills over 140,000 - HISTORY
2023年8月28日 · The Great Kanto Earthquake, also called the Tokyo-Yokohama Earthquake, of 1923 caused an estimated death toll of more than 140,000 and made some 1.5 million people homeless, though reported...
The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923 - ThoughtCo
2019年11月30日 · The Great Kanto Earthquake, also sometimes called the Great Tokyo Earthquake, rocked Japan on Sept. 1, 1923. Although both were devastated, the city of Yokohama was hit even worse than Tokyo. The quake's magnitude is estimated at 7.9 to 8.2 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was in the shallow waters of Sagami Bay, about 25 miles …
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - Brown University
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 shocked the nation. The magnitude of its destruction was almost beyond imagining. Disaster struck at 11:58 on September 1st, 1923, just as families were gathering around the table for lunch.
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In less than three days, a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake and subsequent conflagrations reduced nearly half of Japan’s capital to a blackened, rubble-filled, corpse-strewn wasteland of desolation.
The Great Kantō Earthquake Of 1923, Japan's Deadliest Disaster
On September 1, 1923, the 7.9-magnitude Great Kantō Earthquake struck Yokohama and Tokyo, causing fires and tsunamis that left more than 100,000 people dead.
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - Brown University
Levels of devastation varied from neighborhood to neighborhood. Only about one half of one percent of the population of Akasaka ward were casualties, while Honjo, the largest of all the Tokyo wards, 22 percent, or more than one in five, were killed or missing.
The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins
2023年8月31日 · In 1923, at a time when a reinvented Japan had bloomed as a global power, a violent earthquake razed the country's bustling imperial capital and killed more than 100,000 people. Christopher Harding explores the events and aftermath of the disaster – and its pivotal cultural and physical legacy