Kobe Earthquake

The January 17, 1995 Kobe Earthquake An EQE Summary Report, April 1995 Executive Summary execsumm/ex1-600.gifexecsumm/ex1-600.gif On the first anniversary of the moment magnitude (MW) 6.7 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Kobe, Japan was struck by an MW6.9 earthquake. Both earthquakes struck in the pre-dawn hours, both ruptured beneath densely populated areas, and both caused horrible damage. Yet in Kobe there were many more deaths, financial losses dwarfed those in Northridge, and the amount of destroyed building …

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