The Great Kantō Fire That Killed Over 105,000 People In 1923
On September 1 , 1923 , the area skirt Tokyo , Japan , was struck by a magnitude 7.9 temblor . The Kantō earthquake , as it is now get it on , represents one of the virulent natural cataclysm in history , killing around 105,000 people . However , 90 percent of those death were not cause by the seism or collapsing buildings , but by fires that better out as a consequence ....