(Guihai July 21), September 1, 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan.



a major earthquake in Tokyo, Japan razed to the ground, resulting in more than 100,000 people were killed, more than 200 people homeless. September 1, 1923, the Kanto region of Japan 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurred. Earthquake-stricken areas, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Shizuoka, Yamanashi and other places, the earthquake caused 15 people dead, more than 200 people were left homeless and property losses of 6.5 billion yen. According to newspaper reports at the time, is hungry survivors attempt from the pond and lakes to catch fish fill their stomachs, side by side with the two-mile long queue waiting for the daily food rations or a rice balls per person. The earthquake also led to a cholera epidemic. To this end, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has ordered martial law to prohibit people from entering the city to prevent the plague epidemic. The same time, the Japanese government to take this opportunity to massacre the Revolutionary Party and the Chinese people lived in Japan, Korean. September 16, 1996, said after accurate calculation of the unit of Japan's Kashima Company Institute of Technology, 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake "target =" _blank "> Great Kanto Earthquake Richter 8.1. means that the seismic scale than the original argument twice as large
Japan Great Kanto Earthquake caused by the disaster, the dead and missing a total of $ 14.2 million. because it was in Tokyo seismographs destroyed, according to Sendai City seismograph records Projections of the earthquake was 7.9 on the Richter
Kashima company were verified according to the records at the time they found the seismograph was destruction was estimated too low. therefore too low, on the scale of the earthquake, a new evaluation is made according to the actual situation of that earthquake 8.1 the Richter earthquake level calculated the difference in magnitude 0.2 earthquake scale is exactly double the difference. < ; br>
Japan (Tokyo - Yokohama) / magnitude (Richter): 8.3 / deaths: 142,800 / property damage: $ 2.8 billion