Thirty years ago, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake left more than 6,400 people dead. Will we be ready when the next one strikes? We review NHK's footage from the disaster to see how far we've come.

In the 30 years before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, there were 72 such quakes ... with almost 19,000 dead or missing, and did enormous damage across a wide region, including the meltdownsat ...

What was it like at the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake? Kotani ... highly toxic contents of dead muscle cells such as myoglobin and potassium flow into the blood and spread throughout ...