Water stations were erected across Kobe after the 1995 earthquake. Significant challenges still remain across Japan. In rural areas with aging populations, countless homes still fail to meet basic ...

KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) 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 ...

A memorial event for thousands of victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has started in Kobe City, western Japan, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the natural disaster. Over 6,400 ...

Author Name Matthew A. COLE (University of Birmingham) /Robert J R ELLIOTT (University of Birmingham) /OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University) /Eric STROBL (Ecole Polytechnique) This paper examines the ...

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995 affected numerous plants in Kobe. In this study, I focus on this earthquake and use plant-level data to re-examine the creative disaster hypothesis ...