{{B}}Earthquakes{{/B}}
66. {{U}}At two minutes to noon in September 1 of 1923, the great clock in Tokyo stopped.{{/U}} 67. {{U}}Tokyo Bay Shook as if huge rug had been pulled from under it.{{/U}} 68. {{U}}Towered above the bay, the 4,000 meter Mount Fuji stood above a deep trench in the sea.{{/U}} 69. {{U}}It was from this trench where the earthquake came,{{/U}} at a magnitude of 8. 3 on the Richter scale,
Huge waves swept over the city. 70. {{U}}Boats were driven inland, and buildings and people were dragged out sea.{{/U}} 71. {{U}}The tremors dislodged part of a hillside, which gave way, brushing trains, stations and bodies the water below.{{/U}} 72. {{U}}Three massive shocks wrecked the of Tokyo and Yokohama{{/U}} and, during the next six hours, there were more than 100 aftershocks.
The casualties were enormous, but there were also some lucky survivors. 73. {{U}}The most remarkably was a woman who was having a bath in her room at the Tokyo Grand Hotel.{{/U}} 74. {{U}}As for the hotel collapsed, she and her bath gracefully descended to the street,{{/U}} 75. {{U}}leave both her and the bath water intact.{{/U}}