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The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災 Hanshin Awaji daishinsai?), or Kobe earthquake, occurred on Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46 JST (January 16 at 20:46 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It measured 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale (USGS),[2] and Mj7.3 (adjusted from 7.2) on JMA magnitude scale.[3] The tremors lasted for approximately 20 seconds. The focus of the earthquake was located 16 km beneath its epicenter,[3] on the northern end of Awaji Island, 20 km away from the city of Kobe.

Approximately 6,434 people lost their lives (final estimate as of December 22, 2005); about 4,600 of them were from Kobe.[1] Among major cities, Kobe, with its population of 1.5 million, was the closest to the epicenter and hit by the strongest tremors. This was Japan's worst earthquake in the 20th century after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, which claimed more than 105,000 lives. The 1995 earthquake caused approximately ten trillion yen ($100 billion) in damage, 2.5% of Japan's GDP at the time.

Here is a lil video which shows the disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6iQj09AaAk&feature=youtu.be

 

[asvpxjad]

edit: deleted insensitive comment

 

[Kenshin001]

Seen a lot of stuff on TV about it here. Pretty crazy seeing some of the damage that happened and it makes me a bit concerned living in Tokyo. I'm guessing a lot of the buildings weren't built to sufficient standards but you'd think the freeway would hold up.

 

[NJDEN]

I have a cousin who was in that. He was only a baby at the time, but survived. Apparently he became somewhat of a minor celebrity and had face his printed on shirts over there.

To this day his family still lives in Kobe... my grandmother is heading out to visit later this spring.

 

[CHusson91]

Pretty crazy seeing some of the damage that happened and it makes me a bit concerned living in Tokyo.

Definitely. It's only a matter of time before the big one hits here.

 

[Drazgul]

I'm just glad I don't live anywhere near the Ring of Fire. Eurasian plate represent, it's rock solid!

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

What an event...I hope something as powerful as this never affects D/FW, assuming our little fracking problem continues. Living on the borders of tectonic plates must be tense.

It's this quake's fault Masamune Shirow lost his notes and hasn't been able to continue most of his publications the way he planned, if at all (poor Appleseed).