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.
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CONCLUSION

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