On this day, we remember the 140,000+ people that lost their lives and the families it affected forever.
Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, also called Great Kanto earthquake. An 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 concrete structures in the region collapsed.
Many hundreds of thousands of houses were either shaken down or burned in the ensuing fire touched off by the quake.
The shock generated a tsunami that reached a height of 39.5 feet (12 meters) at Atami on Sagami Gulf, where it destroyed 155 houses and killed 60 people.
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