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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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{{nihongo|The Great Kanto earthquake|関東大地震|Kantō daijishin}} 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.
File:Kanto-Daishinsai-to-Saitama-2.jpg|A {{lang|ja-latn|jikeidan}} (neighborhood vigilance group) in post-earthquake Tokyo, with murdered Koreans{{sfn|Schencking|2013|pp=27, 73}}
File:Kanto-Daishinsai-to-Saitama-2.jpg|A {{lang|ja-latn|jikeidan}} (neighborhood vigilance group) in post-earthquake Tokyo, with murdered Koreans{{sfn|Schencking|2013|pp=27, 73}}
File:Outdoor cabinet meeting frightened by the aftershock after great Kanto earthquake.jpg|Prime Minister [[Yamamoto Gonnohyōe]] (left) holding a cabinet meeting outdoors for fear of further building collapses amid aftershocks
File:Aardbeving Japan 1923 Hulpgoederen staan klaar om naar het rampgebied gebracht te worden vanuit, SFA022814184.jpg|Relief supplies in Osaka being prepared to be brought to Tokyo
File:Aardbeving Japan 1923 Hulpgoederen staan klaar om naar het rampgebied gebracht te worden vanuit, SFA022814184.jpg|Relief supplies in Osaka being prepared to be brought to Tokyo
File:Theosakamainichi-earthquakepictorialedition-1923-b2-page1.jpg|Prince Regent [[Hirohito]] (later Emperor) hearing reports at [[Ueno Park]] from Home Minister [[Gotō Shinpei]] and Chief of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]] Yuasa, during his inspection tour of the devastated capital, September 1923
File:Theosakamainichi-earthquakepictorialedition-1923-b2-page1.jpg|Prince Regent [[Hirohito]] (later Emperor) hearing reports at [[Ueno Park]] from Home Minister [[Gotō Shinpei]] and Chief of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]] Yuasa, during his inspection tour of the devastated capital, September 1923
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