About Kanto Dai Shinsai
The Great Kanto Earthquake (Kanto Dai Shinsai) generated 80 km (35.1 degrees north, 139.5 degrees east) of offings of a northwest of the Sagami bay of Kanagawa Prefecture in 11:58:32 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) on September 1, 1923. It is a disaster by the big earthquake of magnitude 7.9. Serious damage was brought to the wide range from Chiba and Ibaraki Prefecture to eastern Shizuoka, and the greatest damage in the history of a Japanese disaster was done. In academic circles in recent years, the opinion that actual dead and missing person were a little more than 105,000 persons less is established. Since the generating time of the RYOUNKAKU earthquake damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake overlapped with the time zone of lunch, the fire of 136 affairs broke out. In addition, by the typhoon located near Noto-Hanto, what the wind was blowing throughout the Kanto district can check by a weather chart of those days. A fire flaps in the strong wind at the time of the occurrence of an earthquake, and it spreads, causing a fire sensation, and having been extinguished is carried out around 10:00 a.m. on September 3 two days after. As damage of the building in Tokyo, RYOUNKAKU was damaged greatly, the inside-and-outside building in Marunouchi which was under construction collapsed, and the 300 or so worker name was crushed to death. Moreover, many of culture and commercial establishment, such as a building of government and municipal offices, such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Department of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Metropolitan Police Department, Imperial Theater, the MITSUKOSHI Nihonbashi head office, were burned down. Kanda Jinbocho and the Tokyo Imperial University library were also burned down by a spreading fire, and many precious books groups were lost.