killing 61 people and causing widespread damage. In 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. In 1996, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was ...

Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy, sparking a population exodus over the following months and years. Japan experiences more than 1,000 earthquakes every year.

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy ... Brooks / AFP Japan experiences more than 1,000 earthquakes every year. The vast majority are harmless but occasional ...

killing 61 people and causing widespread damage. In 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. In 1996, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was sentenced ...

Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around ... which indicates the extent of housing damage, as a criterion for various types of ...

This initiative stemmed from a critical re-evaluation of a belief that the Kansai region of western Japan, which includes Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, was not susceptible to large earthquakes.

Even now, in 2025, 30 years after the quake, there are still pieces of land which are obviously vacant in Nagata I came to live in Japan in 1994. Not coming from an earthquake-prone country, the Kobe ...

(Mainichi) Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts ... The total damage from the disaster was estimated at ...