On this day in 1995, the Great Hanshin, or Kobe, earthquake rocked Japan. Who are the Israelis released or recovered on the first day of the ceasefire? The Silurian Hypothesis Suggests An Advanced ...

"The images of the disaster are frightening." "I don't understand the lessons." These are the voices of young people living now in areas hit by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that devastated the ...

Kobe bell with three candles in standing bamboos and flowers at the Seattle Center. Photo credit: Barbara Mizoguchi.

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 ...

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 ...

KOBE--Kobe Luminarie, an annual event to commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, will be held from Jan. 24 to Feb. 2 on an expanded scale to mark the 30th anniversary of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Base wines that survived the Great Hanshin Earthquake and matured in two types of barrels have been turned into a Kobe-brand ...