“The cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, and surrounding towns and villages, have been largely if not completely destroyed by earthquake, fire and flood, with a resultant appalling loss of life and ...

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On Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ask themselves whether the nation’s capital ...

YOKOHAMA--Historic negatives that capture the destruction to this port city close to Tokyo caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are causing a stir among researchers. Twenty-eight glass dry ...

(earthquake) yelled a Japanese ... The Tamagawa River, which divides the two prefectures of which Tokyo and Yokohama are the principal cities, formed also the dividing line between the two ...

Earlier this month, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck ... The figure is 82 percent for Yokohama and 81 percent for Mito. Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is located in an area with 48 percent probability.

An eruption of the iconic mountain could release 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

According to experts, 490 million cubic meters of ash might be released during an eruption. The debris from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami is almost ten times this amount.