Fires Add to Havoc of Japanese Quake-- Fires, some still burning as this aerial photograph was taken by Associated Press Photographer C.P. Gorry, completed the destruction wrought in Fukui, Japan, June 28 by an earthquake. In this area, the only buildings left standing were a few of modern construction and a cluster of frame structures (left foreground) along the waterfront.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1948]

[Information from item housing] Earthquakes... Japan Dec. 1946 June 1948