They may sound like something from science fiction, but "fire whirls" are in fact real. And the flaming vortexes have been spotted in recent days by firefighters battling a blaze along the ...

Largest historic fire death toll belongs to aftermath of 1923 Japan Earthquake. Seismological Society of America. Journal Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ...

The most destructive fire whirl on record occurred in Tokyo in 1923, the USFS said. Caused by fires that erupted throughout the city after an earthquake, the fire whirl killed about 38,000 people ...

Japan marks 100 years since the devastating Great Kanto Quake, ... The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sagamihara area southwest of ... causing most of the victims to perish in the fire.

Kishida was to participate in a joint earthquake drill hosted by Sagamihara and joined by eight cities, including Tokyo. The Great Kanto Quake came 13 years after Japan’s colonial rule of the ...

Following an earthquake in Tokyo in 1923, fire whirls torched parts of three neighborhoods and killed nearly 40,000 people, according to the Association for Asian Studies.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 ...

Japan's prime minister has staged a televised a disaster drill in which he declared a fictional state of emergency based on a real-life earthquake that devastated the capital region a century ago.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the ...