关东地震 guān dōng dì zhèn

DEFINITIONS

  1. Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area

CHARACTERS

关 guān frontier pass; close; relation
东 dōng east, eastern, eastward
地 dì earth; soil, ground; region
震 zhèn shake, quake, tremor; excite