PS: After being reminded by readers, the "Richter scale" was only in 1935, so it was changed to "Lee's scale", which is considered the Chinese standard. I'm sorry, our family is a layman about this, and I thought it was a very early ......

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The magnitude of this sudden earthquake reached 8 on the Lee scale. Level 1. The scope of the attack, the size of the damage, and the number of deaths are rare in the history of Japan. Many of the high-rise buildings in the Tokyo area were destroyed by the earthquake, and many of the best works of ancient and modern architecture in Tokyo and other places were reduced to rubble in the earthquake, and countless buildings and man-made objects were destroyed in the earthquake.

Earthquakes come and go fast. Although the earthquake lasted only a few minutes, the aftermath caused far more than that, and the violent earthquake also caused a large number of mudslides and landslides, as well as tsunamis, fires, and severe social panic.

One by one, the buildings collapsed, causing the living to run in terror. Driven by the desire to survive, people blindly fled for their lives, pushed each other, and trampled to death and injured countless people. But a fire worse and more terrible than this one happened.

When the earthquake struck, it was noon, and people in Tokyo and other places were busy cooking lunch, and many homes were blazing. When a great earthquake struck, the stove overturned, flames splashed, and sparks flew wildly. The two major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, located in the Kanto region, are not only densely populated, but also have traditional Japanese buildings made of bamboo and wood, which stop burning down as soon as they burn down. The worst thing is that the buildings in the urban area are very dense, one building next to the other, and once a fire breaks out, one piece will be burned.

In addition, the earthquake damaged the gas pipeline, and the overflowing gas ignited when it caught fire. The combination of several factors, such as the fire source provided by the residents' stoves and the excellent fuel for the gas and bamboo-made houses, turned Tokyo and other places into a sea of fire, and as soon as the earthquake stopped, the fires began to rage in the Kanto region. The cries for help from explosions and fires came and went. After the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, there were also major fires, but because there were not so many bamboo-and-wood houses, the buildings were not so dense, and the damage was well managed, the tragedy was far less than that in Japan.

After the fire broke out, the fire was difficult to control, but the shock wave caused by the earthquake to stir up a huge wind in the area, and the fire area immediately turned into a sea of fire, and the wind helped the fire to burn more and more. Not only that, but the wind also spread the fire in all directions. Wherever the fire spreads, a sky-high fire ignites.

Factories are burning, schools are burning, homes are burning, everything that can be burned is burning. The whole of Tokyo was engulfed in flames, as if the sky was burning and the earth was burning. The flames spread faster than people could have imagined. In the process of spreading the flames, whenever flammable and explosive materials are encountered, either a large explosion occurs or the flames soar into the sky.

Fire brigades in Tokyo and other places were dispatched, but there was no water source due to damage to underground water pipes. Naturally, firefighters could not fight the fire with their bare hands, and the collapsed houses had blocked the streets and made it impossible for fire trucks to pass. It was also difficult for fire trucks to move an inch after entering the fire scene. In the face of fires as in the face of earthquakes, people are almost helpless to let them wreak havoc.

And that's not all, God doesn't seem to be enjoying it, and it seems that just earthquakes and fires are not enough. A tsunami caused by an earthquake has appeared, and a monstrous sea water has hit the Kanto region of Japan. Earthquakes, fires, tsunamis, and fire and water have turned the Kanto region into a hell on earth.

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There are dozens of airships floating over Tokyo, ranging from small airships that can only carry a few people to large airships that can carry hundreds of people, the largest of which is the imperial airship of the Japanese imperial family. In order to avoid the fire and smoke on the ground, the airships rose above 3,000 meters and avoided the city from afar.

These are qualified to board the airship, and of course they are all powerful families in Japan. Although the Japanese government took China's warning as a joke, it did some precautionary measures in private, such as living in open and open areas during this time, and most of the important members of the Japanese imperial family and cabinet, as well as the powerful and wealthy, went to holiday villas on the outskirts of the city, and kept airships on standby.

The airship industry on this plane is much more developed than in the original time and space, and in the airship craze in the pre-war years, Japan also followed the trend and imported a "Royal Palace-class" airship from China as a royal family. It has also imported a lot of airships for other purposes from China, and has also established its own airship factory.

The threshold for such a thing as an airship is not high in the first place, and Japan's own technology can make it, but the difference in quality and size is just a difference. During the period when Sino-Japanese relations were relatively relaxed, some related technologies were also imported from China and other countries, and now Japan can build its own 60-ton large airships.

In the following incidents, the world recognized the safety of such things as helium airships, which were so safe that they became the best means of transportation sought after by the powerful. And this thing has also become a status symbol, if you don't have a luxury airship of your own, even if you have a net worth of hundreds of millions, you won't be recognized in the circle of top elites at all.

The same is true in Japan, after seeing that there is a "sky palace" in the sky, Japan's wealthy and powerful people have followed suit and built themselves a helium airship. The threshold of the "Sky Palace" is too high, and if it is not a head of state, you are embarrassed to use it yourself, so they retreated to the second-level and ordered second-level things such as "Villa in the Sky" and "Sky Yacht" for themselves.

As soon as the earthquake came, these powerful tycoons immediately retreated to the airship with their families and relatives, and the ordinary people suffered heavy casualties, but they didn't lose a single hair. This earthquake made the magnates very glad that they had made their choice, although these luxury airships were expensive and expensive, and it took a long time to buy one, but seeing the terrific scene of the fire and tsunami on the dire ground below, they all now think that this investment is really worth it.

When they had calmed down from the joy of escaping death, they began to think about their inheritance.

On a "sky villa" painted with a "Aoi pattern" family crest, a heart-rending scream suddenly sounded: "Wow, my factory, my bank, all gone, my Tokugawa family's property ......."

"My manor, my villa, why can't I see it, woo woo woo woo ......"

"My shipyard! My steel mill......"

"The Chinese clearly reminded them, but they actually didn't take it seriously! Our Mitsui Foundation has suffered heavy losses at this moment!"

The wails and whining of the magnates rang out on almost every airship. From time to time, there are some women's sharp cries, which are those noble ladies and daughters wailing, it is better not to see it, and now they see their property ruined, but these women's hearts are painful to death, and the men are more or less concerned about their image, these women can't care so much, and they cry and make trouble without image.

Of course, not every airship is so noisy, and on the large airship dedicated to the Japanese cabinet, it is quiet. Interim Prime Minister Yasuya Uchida and the other cabinet ministers were like fools, staring blankly at the hellish scene below from the observation deck.

"............" They looked at each other with wide eyes, but none of them spoke, and the atmosphere was extremely heavy.

The airship was safe, and there was no need to worry about earthquakes, tsunamis, or fires, but their faces were ugly one by one. After all, they are at the top of the government, and they have more problems on their minds than those of the wealthy and powerful.

Yasuya Uchida stared blankly at the water, fire and hell below, only to feel that there were a million divine beasts roaring in his heart. He was originally only a foreign minister, but because the prime minister, Yuzaburo Kato, died of illness in office, he was elected acting prime minister. Originally, he was still ambitious and ready to turn positive and remove the prefix of "temporary", but who knew that he had become a backstabber.

Although the earthquake was not arched by Yasuya Uchida, he knew with his ass that his political enemies would definitely make a big fuss about it, putting hats on his head such as "ignoring China's warnings and causing great losses to the empire". Most of the magnates and low-class civilians who have suffered heavy losses will also take the blame on him. Now it's a hairy one, thank God if you don't get "punished ****" by others.

Well, that's all for later, but just cleaning up the mess in front of him is enough for him to drink a pot. Yasuya Uchida only felt bitterness in his mouth and black eyes.

The faces of the other cabinet members are not much better than him, such a big pot, Uchida Yasuya alone can't carry it no matter what, even if he is the prime minister, he can carry most of it, but the small half saved has to be carried by someone. Who's going to carry it? Of course, it's the cabinet members. Are you still looking for a black card?

So everyone's faces are wonderful at the moment, and they all feel that their future is not bright. With such a big pot, you can't carry even a little bit.

Yasuya Uchida calmed down before he said in a dry voice: "Gentlemen, we must organize disaster relief as soon as possible! We will immediately convene an emergency meeting......

On the chrysanthemum-painted imperial sky palace, Crown Prince Hirohito looked at the scene below with a blue face.

When the earthquake struck, he was holding a state banquet at the Akasaka Imperial Palace in Tokyo to receive envoys from various countries. Although the Japanese government ostensibly did not take China's warnings seriously, the elites did something in private, such as Hirohito, who lived in Akasaka Palace during this time. The first earthquake-resistant building in Japan's history to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake, it proved that Akasaka did not cut corners, and in this major earthquake, it suffered only minor damage.

But Hirohito was scared to pee. Ignoring the etiquette, he staggered to the garden outside the temple, and saw a picture of a landslide. The newly completed 12-story Tokyo Tower was cut in two like matchsticks, and countless tall buildings collapsed in an instant. Tokyo suddenly seemed low and empty, with only the noisy crowds, the sound of boiling noise, and the rising fire, connecting the isolated Akasaka Imperial Palace with the devastated Japan.

When he was set up on the airship by the attendants, he did not recover from the shock.

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Not to mention how busy Japan is for the time being, the world was stunned by this situation. Although the Haiyuan earthquake on December 16, 1920 was higher than this, the population of Haiyuan was not large, and it was a relatively remote small county, and the Chinese government did not manage the damage well, so the damage was not too large. The Kanto earthquake in Japan is completely different, this is the capital area of Japan, the most elite area in Japan, densely populated, developed industry and commerce, and the losses of the two are not at the same level at all.

Earthquake monitoring agencies in various countries were the first to learn about the situation. In the beginning, experts from all over the world were skeptical about China's predictions, but now it has been proven that China's predictions are correct.

The government's response aside, the global earthquake academic community has already made a splash. Predicting an earthquake is a huge pitfall, and researchers from all over the world have invested a lot of energy and money in it, but all of them have been lost, and they don't even have a clue.

Although it has been said that an earthquake is preceded by various signs, such as bubbling and smoking well water, abnormal biological activity, abnormal noises in the ground, the appearance of ground light, earthquake clouds, electromagnetic anomalies, and so on. However, if you want to say whether these omens are useful or not, it may be useful a little, but the actual effect is not great.

Because there are thousands of types of these anomalies, there is no standard at all, and they cannot predict the intensity and timing of an earthquake, and no one knows when or how big an earthquake will occur before it erupts. Moreover, these anomalies are not exclusive to earthquakes, and no one can be sure whether the cause of these phenomena is due to earthquakes or something else.

It is precisely because of these many uncertainties that even with these phenomena, they do not dare to judge whether there will really be an earthquake, and naturally they do not dare to organize evacuation. Just like before the earthquake, the Japanese government was warned by China and did not implement it. Individuals and civil society organizations can evacuate on their own, but governments can't play that role.

The first is that it is likely to cause mass panic, knowing that the IQ of the crowd is inversely proportional to the size. At that time, an American radio station made a joke on April Fool's Day, saying that there was a Martian invasion, which caused social chaos. Even such a ridiculous thing is like this, let alone an earthquake. Then there is the problem of personnel resettlement and the losses caused by evacuation, if it is a remote area, only a few villages are easy to handle, and 1,800 people can be arranged anywhere, and the loss of stopping production for a month is also acceptable.

But if you change to an elite area like Japan's Kanto, it will be troublesome. Leaving aside the resettlement of tens of millions of people, the loss caused by the closure of industrial and commercial areas alone would make no government dare to make such a decision lightly. If there is no earthquake at that time, or if the earthquake is very small, it will be strange if the people are not sprayed with blood.

Therefore, scientists and governments in any country cannot use these anomalies as a basis for judgment, but only as a reference. What they need are theories and methods that can be determined, not something uncertain of this folk nature.

However, the research on earthquake prediction is very slow, even stagnant, and until now, everyone has no clue. But just today, China's prediction has taken effect, although there is still a half-month error in time, and the magnitude of the earthquake is also about plus or minus one level, but after all, it has achieved "earthquake prediction"! If the Chinese's theories and methods are really effective, this deviation is completely acceptable.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, seismologists from various countries rushed to China like a market.