Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Great Kanto earthquake of September 1, 1923, recorded a magnitude of 7.9 wiping out the port city of Yokohama and half of neighboring Tokyo. More than 140,000 lives were lost in the catastrophe. External link Great Kanto Earthquake 1923 Online photo gallery by A. Kengelbacher This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.