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 ...

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 ...

Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts of southern Hyogo Prefect･･･ ...

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, ...

In this paper, we undertake a detailed study of the local effects of the Kobe earthquake. We employ a micro-econometric approach based on carefully geo-coded data on initial plant locations and a ...

Store owners in Kobe's Nagata Ward, battered by a powerful earthquake 30 years ago ... caused immense damage there. Morisaki said that although the company's headquarters and his home were ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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

Heavy damage to the busy harbour area dealt a severe blow to Kobe's economy ... still struggling to recover from a huge New Year's Day earthquake last year that killed around 500 people and ...