On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

In case someone's working on a fic that refers to the Great Kanto Earthquake
of 1922, here's some info about it I heard on TV today:

It shook for 5 minutes.  147K people were killed.  2/3 of Tokyo and almost
all of Yokohama were flattened.  There were 3 days of firestorms.

Incomparison, the 1994 quake that damaged Kobe so badly shook for only 37
seconds.

And in Kobe, they had "earthquake proof" construction....

and now in kobe they (still) have many "earthquake proof" piles of rubble
that have yet to be rebuilt, although i'll admit, i'm sure it was far less
severe than the 1922 quake.


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