Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho

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disaster fire tornado fire whirl mass fatality incident

The Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho was a catastrophic fire tornado that erupted during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, killing tens of thousands of people in one of the disaster’s deadliest single incidents.

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Label	Occurrences
Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	disaster ⓘ fire tornado ⓘ fire whirl ⓘ mass fatality incident ⓘ
after	main shock of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Tokyo ⓘ surface form: Tokyo City
chronologyWithinEvent	occurred shortly after the onset of post-earthquake fires ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
describedBySource	historical accounts of the Great Kantō earthquake ⓘ
hasCause	Great Kanto earthquake ⓘ surface form: Great Kantō earthquake concentration of evacuees and combustible materials ⓘ converging fires in densely built urban area ⓘ ignition of numerous small fires after earthquake ⓘ interaction of heat, wind, and topography ⓘ strong winds ⓘ urban conflagration triggered by earthquake ⓘ
hasContext	early 20th century Tokyo urban environment ⓘ lack of modern fire safety infrastructure in 1923 ⓘ
hasEffect	changes in Japanese disaster management awareness ⓘ destruction of evacuation site at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho ⓘ historical studies on fire whirls and fire storms ⓘ inclusion in disaster history of Japan ⓘ intensification of overall death toll of Great Kantō earthquake ⓘ massive loss of life ⓘ memorialization of victims in Tokyo ⓘ public trauma in Tokyo ⓘ severe burns and asphyxiation of victims ⓘ widespread fire destruction ⓘ
hasMagnitude	among the deadliest fire disasters in Japanese history ⓘ
hasPart	fire storm ⓘ tornado-like vortex of flame ⓘ
hasType	secondary disaster following earthquake ⓘ
location	Honjo ⓘ Japan ⓘ Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ
numberOfDeaths	approximately 38000 ⓘ tens of thousands ⓘ
partOf	1923 Great Kantō earthquake disaster sequence ⓘ Great Kanto earthquake ⓘ surface form: Great Kantō earthquake urban fires in Tokyo in 1923 ⓘ
pointInTime	1923-09-01 ⓘ
significantFor	being one of the deadliest single incidents of the Great Kantō earthquake ⓘ extreme intensity of fire tornado ⓘ high concentration of casualties in one location ⓘ illustrating risks of mass evacuation to open spaces near combustible structures ⓘ

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Subject: Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho
Description of subject: The Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho was a catastrophic fire tornado that erupted during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, killing tens of thousands of people in one of the disaster’s deadliest single incidents.

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Great Kanto earthquake → notableIncident → Great Tokyo fire whirl at Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho ⓘ