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Many homes are busy preparing lunch at 11:58 a.m., and in a lot of kitchens, it's not unusual for people to be using a flame to cook food. This was the moment on September 1, 1923, that the Great Kanto Earthquake struck Tokyo, Yokohama, and surrounding regions. Measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, the quake not only devasted homes and office buildings but claimed the lives of 140,000 people--many of them being engulfed in the fires that broke out after the temblor. The date of the big tragedy--September 1--was designated Disaster Prevention Day in 1960 in order to remind all of us to be prepared for any contingency.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Disaster%20Prevention%20Day

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