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|casualties        = 105,385<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Takemura|first1=Masayuki|last2=Moroi|first2=Takafumi|year=2004|title=Mortality Estimation by Causes of Death Due to the 1923 Kanto Earthquake|journal=Journal of Jaee|volume=4|issue=4|pages=21–45|doi=10.5610/jaee.4.4_21}}</ref>–142,800<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php?month=9&day=1&submit=View+Date|title=Today in Earthquake History|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> deaths

|casualties        = 105,385<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Takemura|first1=Masayuki|last2=Moroi|first2=Takafumi|year=2004|title=Mortality Estimation by Causes of Death Due to the 1923 Kanto Earthquake|journal=Journal of Jaee|volume=4|issue=4|pages=21–45|doi=10.5610/jaee.4.4_21}}</ref>–142,800<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php?month=9&day=1&submit=View+Date|title=Today in Earthquake History|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> deaths

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The {{nihongo|'''Great Kantō earthquake'''|関東大震災|Kantō daishinsai}} was a [[Japan]]ese natural disaster in the [[Kantō region]] of the island of [[Honshū]].<ref>James, Charles. [http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kanto/tokyo1923.pdf  "The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and Fire" at University of California, Berkeley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807010932/https://nisee.berkeley.edu/kanto/tokyo1923.pdf |date=2014-08-07 }}; retrieved 2012-12-11.</ref>  The earthquake struck at 11:58:44 am JST (2:58:44 [[UTC]]) on Saturday, September 1, 1923.  It lasted between 4 and 10 minutes.<ref>Panda, Rajaram. [http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/JapanCopingwithaNationalCalamity_rpanda_160311  "Japan Coping with a National Calamity,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614134943/https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/JapanCopingwithaNationalCalamity_rpanda_160311 |date=2023-06-14 }} Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA); retrieved 2012-12-11.</ref>

The {{nihongo|The great Kanto earthquake|}} was a [[Japan]]ese natural disaster in the [[Kantō region]] of the island of [[Honshū]].<ref>James, Charles. [http://nisee.berkeley.edu/kanto/tokyo1923.pdf  "The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and Fire" at University of California, Berkeley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807010932/https://nisee.berkeley.edu/kanto/tokyo1923.pdf |date=2014-08-07 }}; retrieved 2012-12-11.</ref>  The earthquake struck at 11:58:44 am JST (2:58:44 [[UTC]]) on Saturday, September 1, 1923.  It lasted between 4 and 10 minutes.<ref>Panda, Rajaram. [http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/JapanCopingwithaNationalCalamity_rpanda_160311  "Japan Coping with a National Calamity,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614134943/https://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/JapanCopingwithaNationalCalamity_rpanda_160311 |date=2023-06-14 }} Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA); retrieved 2012-12-11.</ref>

This earthquake destroyed [[Tokyo]], the port city of [[Yokohama]], surrounding prefectures of [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], and [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]]. It caused widespread damage.<ref>Hammer, Joshua. (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&q=yokohama+burning  ''Yokohama Burning: the Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II,'' p. 278].</ref> About 140,000 people died.

This earthquake destroyed [[Tokyo]], the port city of [[Yokohama]], surrounding prefectures of [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], and [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]]. It caused widespread damage.<ref>Hammer, Joshua. (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6O8VyhDbUPgC&q=yokohama+burning  ''Yokohama Burning: the Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II,'' p. 278].</ref> About 140,000 people died.