kobe case study

• DATE

  17 JAN 1996
• POPULATION

  1.5 million in Kobe
• RICHTER

  7.2 on richter scale
• CAUSE

  Destructive Plate Boundary
• Effects

  • Primary: 5,000 Deaths
  • 40,000 injured
  • 100,000 buildings collapsed
  • 230,000 made homeless
  • The port of Kobe worst affected
• Effects

  • Secondary: power and water distrupted
  • 220 billion in damage
  • shortage of clean water and food
  • Fires raged from broken gas pipes
  • Economy suffered, buisnesses closed
• RESPONCES


  1. Immediate: Government supplied 340,000 people to help with search and rescue

  2. Japanese Defence force arrived 2 days later

  3. Government set up shelters in schools and gyms

  4. Telephone companies provided free phone services
• RESPONCES

  1. Secondary: 130,000 new homes built

  2. water, gas, electricity fully working by 1995

  3. new fire fighting equipment

  4. building earthquake proof buildings
• Time

  5:46 AM