Not only one of the biggest earthquake in 20 years. The quake measuring 8.9 that occurred in Japan, on Friday (11/03/2011) afternoon, was recorded as the biggest earthquake in history that ever happened in the land of Sakura's. Throughout the record of seismicity in Japan, has not been that strong earthquakes.
Japan's deadliest earthquake in recorded occurred in 1891. The quake centered in Kanto was only measuring 7.9, but killed an estimated 140,000 people in the region around Tokyo. With a strength of 8.9, the last quake was far stronger than the earthquake in the Kanto, but not too large impact on the city of Tokyo.
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