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In Hiroshi Aramata's historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari, a supernatural explanation is given for the cause of the Great Kantō earthquake, connecting it with the principles of feng shui. In Yasunari Kawabata 's 1930 novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa several chapters deal with the Great Kantō earthquake.
In Japan, the Shindo scale is commonly used to measure earthquakes by seismic intensity instead of magnitude. This is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the United States or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter (its magnitude ...
Major earthquakes that occurred in the Kanto region in the past Ansei Great Earthquake, 1855.. South Kantō earthquakes (Japanese: 南関東直下地震) or Greater Tokyo Area earthquakes (Japanese: 首都直下地震) are general terms for major earthquakes that occurs repeatedly historically in the southern part of Kanto region (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, etc., Greater Tokyo Area) in ...
This is a timeline of Japanese history, ... Great Kanto earthquake kills 140,000 people. 1924: ... "Chronological Chart". Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey ...
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 ...
The Sagami Trough megathrust generated the 1293 Kamakura earthquake, the 1703 Genroku earthquake, which was the greatest rupture along the trough in the last thousand years, [1] and the 1855 (Ansei) and 1923 (Great Kanto or Taisho) earthquakes.
Victims of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (2 P) Pages in category "1923 Great Kantō earthquake" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.