The Great Kant Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan.New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Also, the history displayed on this page defaults to the current date at UTC; please take this into consideration if you view this page and The source of the 1923 Kanto earthquake is a megathrust between Philippine Sea plate and Honshu plate. More than 100,000 people died when the Great Kant Earthquake struck the Tokyo metropolitan area on September 1, 1923. The epicenter of the earthquake was eighty kilometers southwest of Tokyo, near Oshima Island in Sagami Bay. Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923, also called Great Kanto earthquake, earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area near noon on September 1, 1923. The shock was estimated around 8.2 on the Richter scale, and tremors lasted between four and ten minutes. Disclaimer. All dates and times are displayed in UTC and not your local time or the local time near the epicenter. It released forces so great that it shifted the planets tilt on its axis and shortened its days by a fraction of a second. The epicenter lay deep beneath Oshima Island in Sagami Bay. The Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 (At = 7.9), which caused tremendous damage to the Tokyo and Yokohama areas, was one such example (Sekiya, 1971). Japan on sunday experienced a series of earthquakes on sunday, including three in the largest of the three earthquakes that struck chiba registered 3.9 on the richter scale and 3 on the japanese. This earthquake devastated Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka, and caused widespread damage throughout the Kant region.Its force was so great in Kamakura, over 60 km (37 mi) from the epicenter, it moved the Great Buddha statue, which weighs about 93 short tons (84,000 kg), almost two feet. More than half of the brick buildings and one-tenth of the reinforced concrete structures in the region collapsed. On September 1, 1923, a great Tokyo earthquake struck the South Kanto area (including Yokohama). This natural disaster is referred to today as the Great Kanto Earthquake. The death toll from the temblor was estimated to have exceeded 140,000. The force of the quake was so strong that a 93-ton Buddha statue 37 miles from the epicenter moved almost two feet. This book is the first study to explore how people experienced, interpreted, and attempted to use the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 to not only rebuild Tokyo to reflect a new urban modernity, but also to reconstruct society. Recorded as an 8.9 on the magnitude scale, the Tohoku earthquake was vastly more powerful than the Great Kanto Earthquake that had unleashed such devastation to Japan in 1923. Its presumed magnitude was 7.9 and the maximum seismic intensity was 7, the highest level on the Japanese scale. The Great Kanto Earthquake occurred at 11:58 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1923. 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