1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake

1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake

The Meiji Tokyo earthquake (明治東京地震 Meiji-Tokyo jishin?) was an earthquake which occurred in Tokyo, Japan at 14:04 PM on June 20, 1894. It affected downtown Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa prefecture, especially the cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama.

The Meiji Tokyo earthquake had its epicenter in Tokyo Bay, with a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter Scale.[1] The depth of the 1894 earthquake has not been determined, but it is thought to have occurred within the subducting Pacific Plate under the Kantō region.[2] The death toll was 31 killed and 157 injured.

The earthquake was mentioned by author Ichiyō Higuchi in her work Mizu-no-ue no nikki, in which she described damage to buildings in Yotsuya, and soil liquefaction in the Mita area of downtown Tokyo. She also commented on an aftershock which occurred at 2200 that night.[3] The earthquake is also mentioned by author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in his autobiographical work, Yosho-jidai, in which he described how his family’s house collapsed during the earthquake, a traumatic event to which he attributed his life-long phobia of earthquakes.[4] By 1894, Tokyo and Yokohama had numerous foreign residents, many of whom commented on the earthquake in their writings and diaries.

The National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo has a collection of twenty two photographs of the earthquake in the form of albumen papers, lantern slides and dry plates. A considerable number of photographs were taken just after the event for the use at the former Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee in its official reports of the 1894 earthquake, but almost all of the original plates have been lost.[5]

References

  1. ^ http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199920/000019992099A0772172.php Source Parameters of the Tokyo Earthquake in Meiji Era (1894).
  2. ^ http://www.hp1039.jishin.go.jp/eqchreng/5-1-3.htm
  3. ^ Danly, In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo
  4. ^ Tanizaki, Childhood Years: A Memoir
  5. ^ http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004707968/ Bulletin of the National Science Museum

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