Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Akitsune Imamura (今村 明恒, Imamura Akitsune, Kagoshima, 14 June, 1870 – 1 January, 1948) was a Japanese seismologist. Born in a poor family, he nonetheless managed to study at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1899, in anticipation of the later theory of plate tectonics, he argued that the tsunami that struck the Sanriku coast of Honshū island in 1896 (known as the Meiji Sanriku tsunami) had been triggered by movements of the earth's crust under the sea.. }
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- Akitsune_Imamura comment "Akitsune Imamura (今村 明恒, Imamura Akitsune, Kagoshima, 14 June, 1870 – 1 January, 1948) was a Japanese seismologist. Born in a poor family, he nonetheless managed to study at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1899, in anticipation of the later theory of plate tectonics, he argued that the tsunami that struck the Sanriku coast of Honshū island in 1896 (known as the Meiji Sanriku tsunami) had been triggered by movements of the earth's crust under the sea.".