the major earthquake
The date of the Kanto Earthquake was September 1, 1923, and the event was the Great Kanto Earthquake, at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. A few minutes after this earthquake with a magnitude of 9 had died down, a tsunami of 40 feet struck.
The Great Kanto Earthquake obliterated all of that in a single afternoon. According to survivors, the initial quaking lasted for about 14 seconds—long enough to bring down nearly every building on Yokohama’s watery, unstable ground |