The magnitude 7.3 quake struck on Jan 17, 1995, causing widespread ... a magnitude-6.6 earthquake occurred off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, with a maximum intensity ...

17, 1995, leaving 6,434 people dead as many homes ... "The Great Hanshin Earthquake is the starting point of Japan's earthquake disasters, as the know-how built up from the disaster helped us ...

Overall, 63.2% (758 people) stated that learning about past disasters, including the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, through news on TV and in ...

Tremors in the Nankai Trough, south of Kobe, have increased recently as seismologists flag higher risks of a major quake in ...

The "Luminarie" illumination event opens on Jan. 24, 2025, in Kobe in memory of the victims of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in the western Japan city and its vicinity that killed more ...

Japan intensified its scientific ... in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled parts of Kobe and surrounding areas in 1995. This initiative stemmed from a critical re ...

Three opposition parties--the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Nippon Ishin (Japan ... were used in disaster relief before the 1995 earthquake, the use of official certificates expanded ...

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 ...

KOBE -- A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still trades stocks daily, earning him the nickname "Japan's Warren ...

According to Japan's Earthquake Research Committee, there’s an 80 percent chance that a megaquake could occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years. That's slightly up from the 70 to 80 ...