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On this day in 1995, the Great Hanshin, or Kobe, earthquake rocked Japan. Marianne Faithfull, British singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78 The A-12 Archangel: Faster, Lighter, Higher than ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and surrounding areas. Gathering information about the disaster in Tokyo, I called police stations in Kobe and asked officers questions.

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 ...

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 ...

The massive earthquake that hit Kobe and other western Japan areas in 1995 has led to expectations that convenience stores will serve as a lifeline in times of disaster. "The feeling of security ...

Sunflowers growing in an empty plot of land in the city of Kobe, where a home once stood before a massive earthquake 30 years ago, have spread throughout the country as a symbol of reconstruction ...

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 ...

The 7.2-magnitude quake on January 17, 1995, sparked a major review of quake preparedness in the island nation that suffers about one fifth of the world's most powerful tremors. Mourners observed ...

Not coming from an earthquake-prone country, the Kobe earthquake was a shock to see on TV. We were living in Nagano then, and local food companies were trucking relief food to Kobe. We moved to Kobe ...