What the records say
- When
- 1 Sep 1923
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.9
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 35.10° N, 139.50° E
- Deaths
- 105385
- Injuries
- 52074
- Damage musd
- 600
- Houses destroyed
- 695000
- Depth km
- 35
7 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Große Kantō-Erdbeben der Stärke 7,9 und die daraus resultierenden Brände in der Kantō-Ebene auf der japanischen Hauptinsel Honshū zerstören die Hafenstadt…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre détruit les villes de Tokyo et Yokohama faisant”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “На равнине Канто в Японии произошло Великое землетрясение Канто”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un gran terremoto de 8,0 azota y devasta gran parte de Japón, matando a 142.800 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本關東大地震（關東大震災）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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