"The January 1 earthquake ... bridges and buckled roads, he pointed out. "But it is clear that the government reactions were delayed and at least some of the people who were trapped beneath ...

The massive earthquake that hit Kobe and other western Japan areas in ... In some areas, roads and buildings had collapsed due to the quake, which measured up to 7, or the highest on the Japanese ...

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 ...

On this day in 1995, the Great Hanshin, or Kobe, earthquake rocked Japan. Marianne Faithfull, British singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78 The A-12 Archangel: Faster, Lighter, Higher than ...

Yoshioka Takuma saw many collapsed buildings in the aftermath of the Noto Peninsula earthquake in 2024. In a park in central Kobe, 30 years to the minute since the earthquake struck, people ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and surrounding areas ... under the wreckage when their station buildings collapsed. One of them was Yasu Yamasaki, 62, who was a ...

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 to life in prison and 16 others were also ...

professor emeritus of disaster prevention planning at Kobe University, said seismic retrofitting is the foundation of all earthquake countermeasures. “If homes don’t collapse during an ...

KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed ... while fires raged through collapsed timber houses. Heavy damage to the busy harbour ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake ... through collapsed timber houses. Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy ...

Sunflowers growing in an empty plot of land in the city of Kobe, where a home once stood before a massive earthquake 30 years ago, have spread throughout the country as a symbol of reconstruction ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17, ...