しゅちょっがたしん
Meanings
Noun
1. Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
Kanji used
neck
metropolis
straight
below
model
ground
tremors
Composed of
capital city; metropolis
near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area