Japanese 1923 Earthquake Disaster Fire Tsunami Tokyo Old Postcard

BG Antique tragic disaster postcard of the 1923 earthquake and disaster in Japan showing the fires raging and all the devastation as it raged unstoppably, with small portrait image of the same scene in its beauty and tranquility just before the incident took place.  This is unused and bar tiny imperfections in mint condition. You surely wont source better.

"..On 1st September 1923 beneath Salami Bay, about 30 miles south of Tokyo a 60 by 60 mile piece of the Philippine oceanic plate split and forced itself against the Eurasian continental plate. A massive amount of tectonic energy was released. The initial terrible earthquake was then followed by a huge 12 metre tsunami and if this wasnt awful enough fires went on to sweep through the wooden houses of Yokohama and Tokyo destroying everything and everyone in their path. It was estimated that 140,000 people died in the dreadful Kant? Earthquake of 1923. A number that included almost 45,000 people who had tried to protect themselves near Tokyos Sumida River but who were all burnt alive by an awful 100m tornado of fire known as a dragon twist. It destroyed almost everything with only a few hundred people surviving.In less than three days half of Japans capital had become nothing less than a grim and dark corpse-strewn wilderness of rubble..."