Japan marks 15th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake Japan's Kobe and its surrounding areas marked on Sunday the 15th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, which left more than 6,000 people dead and caused a huge amount of damage to the infrastructure of the area, said reports from the central Japanese port city of Kobe.
The earthquake struck at 5:46 on the morning of Jan. 17 in 1995,and with a magnitude of 7.3, was the worse to hit Japan since the great Kanto earthquake of 1923.
People gathered at public spaces throughout t ... 日本の神戸市とその周辺地域では日曜日の阪神大震災では、6000人以上が死亡し、その地域のインフラストラクチャへの被害の膨大な量の原因の15周年を迎えた、と神戸市の中心的な日本の港湾都市からのレポート