AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its turret clock for 12 hours from 5:46 a.m. to ...

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 ...

In the 30 years before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, there were 72 such quakes. In the 30 years since then, though, there have been 410 rated a 5 lower or above. It is impossible to make a ...

Over 6,400 people died in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in western Japan three decades ago. NHK World's Ide Mizuha spoke to a mother still grieving her son who died before he could realize ...

Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts of southern Hyogo Prefecture, registering the maximum 7 on the Japanese ...

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 ...

I then went on to graduate school at Kyoto University, where I began researching seismology in the research division for earthquake prediction and measurements. Did the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the nuclear accident, turned out to be an unprecedented catastrophe. In comparison with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that struck ...

The year 1995 was a turning point for Japan in many ways. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in western Japan and the Tokyo subway gas attack shocked the nation, while society was transformed by ...

In 1995, a massive earthquake levelled the port city of Kobe. Barely three years later, municipal officials hatched a plan to reinvent the local economy. Their idea: transform an artificial island ...