1923 Great Kantō earthquake are the peak of the typhoon season. Schools and public and private organizations host disaster drills. Tokyo is located near a fault zone beneath the Izu Peninsula which, on average, causes a major earthquake about once every 70 years, and is also located near the Sagami Trough, a large subduction zone that has potential for large earthquakes. Every year on this date, schools across Japan take a moment of silence at the precise time the earthquake hit in memory of the lives lost. Some discreet memorials are located in Yokoamicho Park in Sumida Ward, at the site of the open
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,