Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-rise reinforced-concrete buildings, the city today is a worse firetrap than ever. Ichiro Uchibaba, an auto repairman who, as a boy of eight, survived the 1923 quake and firestorm, says: "It's worse today-these 2,000,000 cars and 3,000,-000 kerosene stoves in Tokyo are potential bombs. They would cause millions of fires...
These grim thoughts filled Japanese minds and media with the approach of Sept. 1, the 50th anniversary of one of the most devastating earthquakes known to history. It leveled and burned Tokyo and neighboring cities with a loss of 143,000 lives...
This year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
...photographs from a U.S. satellite showed two parallel lines, running through the northern outskirts of Tokyo, that may represent faults in the earth's crust. Then Japanese seismologists were shaken up by a U.S. colleague. Columbia University's Christopher H. Scholz (TIME, Aug. 27) suggested that the Tokyo region could expect a major earthquake within the next few years. Seismologist Tsuneji Rikitake was not convinced by Scholz's reasoning-"The art of earthquake prediction is about as accurate as Chinese astrology," he snapped-but he had to concede that the danger was there. "The energy accumulation right...
Potential Bombs. The portents touched off a selling campaign by Tokyo department stores of survival kits containing medicines, canned foods and candles. The monthly magazine Soh devoted a whole issue to the catchy question "Could you survive a major earthquake?" No doubt millions of Japanese could-but their capital city probably would...