Kobe+Earthquake+-+1995

Kobe, Japan  January 1st, 1995

In Kobe Japan January 1st, 1995, 5,502 were confirmed killed. 36,896 were injured and some had extensive damage. over 90 percent of the casualties occurred along the southern coast of Honshu between Kobe and Nishinomiya. about 310,00 people were evacuated to temporary shelters. it was only rated a 6.9. The Kobe earthquake was the worst earthquake in Japan since the 1923 Tokyo earthquake. The structural damage that the earthquake caused was devastating. Many of the houses that fell were older wood-frame houses with clay tile roofing. When the building collapsed there were over 300 fires in minutes of their collapsing. Kobe Japan was said to have been built to withstand major earthquakes.

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