On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a magnitude-7.9 quake that left 105,000 people dead, struck between the boundaries of the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate.

1 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, which devastated the capital and surrounding areas. The disaster left more than 105,000 people dead or missing. Many died in the ...

Frank Lloyd Wright expert Tim Totten and Dana Thomas House Foundation past president Cinda Klickna, spoke to Community Voices ...

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923. In a then-and-now series ...

(USGS/George A. Lang Collection) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake. I. As if it had slid suddenly into a sea of tossing, choppy waves, the coach pitched up and down, lurched ...

Even after the quake itself subsided, the tragedy of the Great Kanto Earthquake was only beginning. An unlikely "fire tornado" consumed a site where 40,000 evacuees had gathered, leaving few ...

Japan on Tuesday marks the 14th anniversary since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the nation in 2011, triggering a ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ... and her team looked at data from the eastern Kanto region of Japan, including Tokyo. The region is situated where the Philippine Sea Plate is ...