Monthly Archives for January 2016


January 17: Tragedy in Kobe

On 17 January 1995, one of the biggest earthquakes struck Japan in their sixth largest city, Kobe. The earthquake is called the Great Hanshin Earthquake, usually referred to as the Kobe Earthquake. Until the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Kobe had not experienced any major earthquakes for the past four centuries. The night the tragedy took place, […]