An estimated 2.35 million people took part in government-led disaster drills Monday, the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the Tokyo region.
The annual exercise was based on a scenario in which a quake with a magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale hit central Tokyo in the early morning.
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