{{U}}At two minutes to noon in September 1 of 1923, the great clock in Tokyo stopped. (82) Tokyo Bay shook as if huge rug had been pulled from under it. (83) Towered, above the bay, the 4000-meter Mount Fuji stood above a deep trench in the sea. (84) 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. (85) {{U}}Boats were driven inland, and buildings and people were dragged out sea.{{/U}} (86) {{U}}The tremors dislodged part of a hillside, which gave way, brushing trains, stations and bodies the wafer below.{{/U}} (87) {{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. (88) {{U}}The most remarkably was a woman who was having a bath in her room at the Tokyo Grand Hotel.{{/U}} (89) {{U}}As for the hotel collapsed, she and her bath gracefully descended to the street,{{/U}} (90) {{U}}leave both her and the bath water intact.{{/U}}