8.3 Epicentre beneath Izu Oshima island, Sagami Bay , Honshu . Struck Kanto plain at 11:58 am. Devastated Tokyo and Yokohama and surrounding prefectures of Chiba , Kanagawa and Shizuoka . 100,000 to 142,000 deaths, mostly in fires. Latter figure including 40,000 missing and presumed dead. Koreans, Chinese and Okinawans were