2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami additional power, because TEP's power plants were also damaged in the earthquake. Kansai Electric Power Company (Kepco) cannot share electricity, because its system operates at 60 hertz, whereas TEPCO and TEP operate their systems at 50 hertz; this is due to early industrial and infrastructure development in the 1880s that left Japan without a unified national power grid. Two substations, one in Shizuoka Prefecture and one in Nagano Prefecture, were able to convert between frequencies and transfer electricity from Kansai to Kanto and Tōhoku, but their capacity to do so is limited to 1 GW. With the damage to so
1923 Great Kantō earthquake study engineering. On the way, the 1923 earthquake strikes, damaging the train and causing a huge fire in the city. In the 2017 josei manga "Fushigi Yûgi Byakko Senki" (by Yuu Watase), the heroine Suzuno Osugi enters "The Universe of the Four Gods" during the earthquake after her dying father Takao orders her to so she will survive the disaster. After a brief time there she's sent back to the already destroyed Tokyo and she, alongside her prospect love interest Seiji Horie and two young boys named Hideo and Kenichi, are taken in by a friend of the late Takao,