Nyosen Hamada / Artelino.com "Hi ni Oware Mizu ni Oboru" (Chased by the Fire, Drowned in the Water), by artist Nyosen Hamada. At the time, the Great Kanto Earthquake was considered to be the worst ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people. The magnitude 7.3 quake hit Kobe City in western Japan and surrounding areas at 5:46 ...

Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around the port city. The disaster claimed 6,434 lives and destroyed or partially destroyed 460,000 ...

The 1906 earthquake and the devastating fire that followed ... served as kindling for the great inferno. For three days and two nights the fire blazed, and was only stopped by a shift in the wind ...

The Kansai area will never experience a major earthquake.” That was how many people felt before the Great Hanshin-Awaji ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 prompted the government to establish a nationwide network to monitor seismic activity, and this unparalleled and sophisticated observation system is ...

At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted from their beds by a violent earthquake ... up “like a great loaf of ...

NIIMI, Okayama Prefecture--Mio Hashimoto, 15 years old when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck, was traumatized when she realized nearly how many lives were lost in her neighborhood in the disaster.

sustained severe fire damage. Railway officials were brought in from all over Japan to repair it. NHK has hundreds of photos of the destruction and suffering caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake.

The Fire Rescue Task Forces, also known as Hyper Rescue, were created after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that hit western Japan in 1995. The quake did not only cause fires but also other ...