2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami the most popular examples of sonification on the web. Also, following the earthquake, for the first time in Japanese history, the Emperor addressed the nation in a pre-recorded television broadcast. Seismologists anticipated a very large quake would strike in the same place as the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — in the Sagami Trough, southwest of Tokyo. The Japanese government had tracked plate movements since 1976 in preparation for the so-called Tokai earthquake, predicted to take place in that region. However, occurring as it did north east of Tokyo, the Tōhoku earthquake came as a surprise to seismologists. While the Japan
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,