[Almab]

More than 200 000 dead in the earthquake in Tokyo (Edo) in the 1920s...

So please people, learn some history!

[Almab]

1815 April 5, 10–11, Netherlands Indies (Sumbawa, Indonesia): eruption of Tambora largest in historic times. An estimated 92,000 people were killed, about 10,000 directly as a result of explosions and ash fall and about 82,000 indirectly by starvation and disease.

1902 Dec. 28, Messina, Sicily: city totally destroyed by earthquake. Death toll 70,000–100,000 in Sicily and southern Italy.

1920 Dec. 16, Gansu province, China: magnitude 8.6 earthquake killed 200,000 in northwest China.

1923 Sept. 1, Japan: magnitude 8.3 earthquake destroyed one third of Tokyo and most of Yokohama. More than 140,000 killed.

1927 May 22, nr. Xining, China: magnitude 8.3 earthquake claimed approximately 200,000 victims.

[Stonewall Jackson]

This quake, on Sept 1, 1923, also sank the partially completed Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi, which would have weighed 41,300 tons.

[Baraonda]

Too many young people in the thread.

[Stentor]

So please people, learn some history!

Have you always been this annoying?

[glock rocks]

More than 200 000 dead in the earthquake in Tokyo (Edo) in the 1920s...

So please people, learn some history!

Did it occur to you that some people read threads like this to learn history? So do you come to teach, learn, or disrupt?

[Eaker]

Learn some manners newbie.