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    The document summarizes the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan on September 1, 1923. It was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake caused by movement of tectonic plates under Tokyo. Over 140,000 people were killed and widespread damage occurred as many buildings collapsed. A tsunami up to 12 meters high also struck the coast, destroying houses and killing people. The earthquake demonstrated the need to build more earthquake resistant structures and improve disaster preparedness.

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    The document summarizes the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan on September 1, 1923. It was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake caused by movement of tectonic plates under Tokyo. Over 140,000 people were killed and widespread damage occurred as many buildings collapsed. A tsunami up to 12 meters high also struck the coast, destroying houses and killing people. The earthquake demonstrated the need to build more earthquake resistant structures and improve disaster preparedness.

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    The document summarizes the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake that struck the Tokyo-Yokohama area of Japan on September 1, 1923. It was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake caused by movement of tectonic plates under Tokyo. Over 140,000 people were killed and widespread damage occurred as many buildings collapsed. A tsunami up to 12 meters high also struck the coast, destroying houses and killing people. The earthquake demonstrated the need to build more earthquake resistant structures and improve disaster preparedness.

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    TRAVEL GEOGRAPHY (DTT1213)

    ( INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT)

    EARTHQUAKE OF YOKOHAMA, TOKYO JAPAN (1923)

    PREPARED FOR

    MISS HAJARIAH BINTI ABDUL KHALID

    PREPARED BY

    NURUL HANAN HAYATI BINTI ROZMAN

    1B

    2022.05.123.DHUMY

    SUBMISION DATE

    15 MAY 2022
    CASE BACKGROUND

    Tokyo – Yokohama earthquake of 1923 also known as the Great Kanto earthquake with

    magnitude of 7.9 with its focus deep beneath Izu Oshima Island in Sagami Bay. The cause was

    a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting

    beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough that hit the Tokyo - Yokohama

    metropolitan area on 1 September 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the

    earthquake was between four and ten minutes. The death toll from the quake is estimated

    at more than 140,000 people. More than half of the building and one over ten of the concrete

    structures in the province collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed either

    as a result of the quaker or scorched in the fire which occurred as a result of the earthquake.

    The quake also caused a tsunami which reached a height of 39.5 (or 12 meters) at Atami in

    Sagami Bay, where it destroyed 155 houses and kill 60 people.

    PICTURE SOURCE: https://youtu.be/okBk0TrYnJo


    SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region

    THE PLACE OR COUNTRY OF THE INCIDENT

    The Kanto region is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. In a common

    definition, the region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures:

    Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly

    more than 45 percent of the land area is the Kanto Plain. The rest consists of the hills and

    mountains that form the land borders.

    THE FACTORS WHICH CAUSED THE EARTHQUAKE

    An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates are always slowly

    moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on the edge

    overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel

    through the earth's crust and cause the shaking that we feel.
    RECOMMENDATIONS TO PREVENT EARTHQUAKE DISASTERS

    The hazard posed by manmade earthquakes can be mitigated by minimizing or in some cases

    stopping the activity that is causing the earthquakes to occur. For example, earthquakes

    linked to wastewater disposal in deep wells in Colorado, Ohio and Arkansas stopped occurring

    after injection was halted. We cannot prevent natural earthquakes from occurring but we can

    significantly mitigate their effects by identifying hazards, building safer structures, and

    providing education on earthquake safety. By preparing for natural earthquakes we can also

    reduce the risk from human induced earthquakes.

    CONCLUSION

    The word is now witnessing disaster after another as a result of climate change and the effects

    of global warming. This contributed to an even greater hurricene unusually heavy rain as well

    as extreme heat. Furthermore, human intervention factor are eexcessive through

    development activities and unstable behavior has exacerbated the situation. Finally we all

    need to prepared for natural disasters which can happen at any time.

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