6 1923 headline newspapers GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE Disaster YOKAHAMA TOKYO Japan

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6 1923 headline newspapers GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE Disaster YOKOHAMA TOKYO Japan
- inv # 8Q-308
SEE PHOTO----- Six (6) COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the
Red Wing Daily Eagle
(MN) dated Sept 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1923.
These newspapers contain headlines and long detailed coverage of the
GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE that devastated Tokyo and Yokahama, JAPAN.
Great lot of 6 newspapers with "first report" coverage of the worst earthquake in recorded history ever to hit Japan.
The Great Kantō earthquake struck the
Kantō Plain
on the Japanese main island of
Honshū
at 11:58:44 am on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and 10 minutes. This was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history, and at the time was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region. The
2011 Tōhoku earthquake
later surpassed that record, at magnitude 9.0.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 with its
focus
deep beneath
Izu Ōshima Island
in the
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
.
This earthquake devastated
Tokyo
, the port city of
Yokohama
, and the surrounding prefectures of
Chiba
,
Kanagawa
, and
Shizuoka
, and caused widespread damage throughout the Kantō region. The power was so great in
Kamakura
, over 37 mi from the epicenter, it moved the
Great Buddha
statue, which weighs about 93 short tons, almost two feet.
Estimated casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead. The damage from this natural disaster was the greatest sustained by
prewar Japan
. In 1960, the government of Japan declared September 1, the anniversary of the quake, as an annual "Disaster Prevention Day".
Very good condition. This listing includes the 6 complete entire original newspapers, NOT just a clipping or a page of them. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay  priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package.
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