首都直下地震

しゅとちょっかじしん

shutochokkajishin

noun

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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

Related Kanji

首	neck, counter for songs and poems
都	metropolis, capital, all, everything
直	straightaway, honesty, frankness, fix, repair
下	below, down, descend, give, low, inferior
地	ground, earth
震	quake, shake, tremble, quiver, shiver