Kanto Auto Works plant. Later, the company replaced Yokosuka for car assemby with the Higashi-Fuji (established in 1968) and Iwate (established in 1993) plants. Kanto Auto Works was a public company until 2011 when, following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Toyota announced it would make it a wholly owned subsidiary. On July 1, 2012, Kanto Auto Works and two other Toyota subsidiaries (Central Motors and Toyota Motors Tohoku) were combined into a single company called Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc. Kanto Auto Works In April 1946, Kanto Auto Works was established in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, as an independent company called "Kanto Electric Motor Works"
2011 Guerrero earthquake similar intensities to that of the Guerrero earthquake are required per year to total the energy unleashed by a magnitude 7.5 event. Many locals perceived an apparent increase in recent earthquake occurrences, though at the time seismologists registered normal levels of seismic activity in the area. In 2009, a similar magnitude 5.8 M earthquake struck Guerrero near Acapulco at a depth of 35 km (22 mi), killing at least two people. 2011 Guerrero earthquake The 2011 Guerrero earthquake struck with a moment magnitude of 5.7 in southern Mexico at on Thursday, 5 May. It was positioned west of Ometepec, Guerrero,