The influx of soldiers led to the area's rise as a nightlife district, briefly interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake which flattened the area in 1923.

When the market was devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake, Yoshinoya moved to the new Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo in 1923.

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" Like, Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which did survive the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, site specific decision-making, anticipates seismic activity in Ando's several Hyōgo-Awaji buildings.

On the recommendation of a scriptwriter friend from junior high, Takashi Oda, he joined the script department at Shōchiku after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

The automobile business was in danger of going bankrupt, until the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, where his company was instrumental in importing General Motors GMC trucks to help with the disaster recovery efforts, and continued to provide vehicles as the transportation infrastructure was rebuilt.

Although the original greenhouse was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, the botanical garden ( now the Samuel Cocking Garden ) remains an attraction with over half a million visitors a year.

* Great Kanto Earthquake 1923 Online photo gallery by A. Kengelbacher

* Film footage of the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake

* The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection A Brown University Library Digital Collection

* Additional information about the Great Kanto Earthquake

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Also in 1923, Great Kanto Earthquake struck Kawaguchi, and 99 people were killed, but fortunately no fire occurred unlike Tokyo and Yokohama.

Santōka proved no more reliable at working a steady job than he had at going to college, and though he did secure a permanent position as a librarian in 1920, by 1922 he was again unemployed due to another “ nervous breakdown .” He stayed in Tokyo long enough to experience the Great Kanto Earthquake, after which he was apparently jailed as a suspect Communist.

The Great Kanto Earthquake struck Japan in 1923.

In the Taishō period, the Japanese banking community was thrown into financial difficulties because of World War I and the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake.

The buildings in Kuramae campus were destructed by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

The library was founded in 1882, and it lost nearly 28, 000 books during the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

His diary was believed to have been burned and lost in Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, but rediscovered by Kennosuke Nakamura, a Russian literary researcher, and published in 2004 as Dnevniki Sviatogo Nikolaia Iaponskogo ( 5 vols.

Map of Tokyo City before the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923

At the entrance to the park, in a wooded island filled with flowers between the circular entrance and exit road, there is a little-known monument: a taiko-gata stone lantern, a gift of friendship from the City of Yokohama, Japan, to the City of Seattle, given in 1930 in gratitude to Seattle's assistance to Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

On September 1, 1923, seven days before the disaster, the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in Japan.

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 destroyed the base the statue sits upon, but the base was repaired in 1925.

Zembsch suffered a nervous breakdown on the return voyage and was admitted to a hospital in Yokohama, which was soon after buried by falling rubble in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.

Berkeley's slow growth ended abruptly with the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

* 1960 – An earthquake measuring 9. 5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile.

In 1971, Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru following his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian Earthquake.

The first observations of normal modes were made in the 1960s as the advent of higher fidelity instruments coincided with two of the largest earthquakes of the 20th century-the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake and the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake.

* May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula, causing the most powerful earthquake on record ( with a magnitude of 9. 5 ) and a tsunami.

* May 6 – The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran ( 7. 3 on the Richter Scale ) kills 4, 000 people.

Bombay Beach is very near to the San Andreas Fault and was the location of a foreshock in the fictional made for TV movie The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake ( 1990 ).

Nevada ranks fourth in the nation for current seismic activity Earthquake databases ( the Council of the National Seismic System Composite Catalogue and the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network ) provide current and historical earthquake information.

This building was a skyscraper that had become very much a symbol of modernity in Japan, and its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake came as a harrowing omen to many who saw it as reminiscent of the Tower of Babel.

Although its presence was suspected as early as 1926, the worldwide occurrence of the asthenosphere was confirmed by analyses of earthquake waves from the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960.

This includes the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake, which at M 9. 5 was the largest earthquake ever recorded, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Yamamoto was recalled to government as Prime Minister again in the emergency crisis " earthquake cabinet " ( 1923 – 24 ) following the Great Kantō Earthquake.

His death came immediately before the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, and therefore Japan was without a prime minister during that disaster.

The house was destroyed by the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923.

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the tsunami that followed, and the resulting Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant disaster caused significant damage to the prefecture, primarily but not limited to the eastern Hama-dōri region.

B ' nai B ' rith later raised funds and distributed them to those affected by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Galveston, Texas, flood of 1900 and the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.

More significantly, Ando's noteworthy achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific — the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.