The Deaths of People in the Kobe Earthquake As a class we have been asked to investigate "Why did so many people die in the Kobe earthquake?" In this project I will be covering: 1.Where, when and why the earthquake happened and which plates were involved. 2.What the primary and secondary effects were. 3.How well prepared the Japanese people were for the earthquake. 4.How well people coped with the disaster. 5.How the Japanese authorities put thing's right afterwards. To
The Great Kanto Earthquake of Japan in 1923 was a complete shock to the nation. The destruction brought to Japan because of it affected 60% of Tokyo’s population. It is known to be the most destructive earthquake in Japanese history. Over 140,000 lives were affected in all. It wasn’t the earthquake itself that caused so much destruction, but the disasters that occurred after. As a result of the earthquake, multiple fires, a tornado, a typhoon, and a tsunami broke out and destroyed Tokyo, Yokohama
bridge. One place in which all three elements need to be considered highly when building any structure with the magnitude of a bridge is Japan. Because Japan obtains almost 60 inches of annual rainfall and is a hotspot for hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes, the bridges in the area need to be extremely well planned out in order for them to be able to carry out its purpose. One of the most recent bridges build in Japan that exemplifies these ideas is the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge. This bridge, which opened
effect to happen. Earthquake waves are mechanical waves and the energy transferred is through compression and rarefaction. Earth has few layers and one of them is the lithosphere. It is broken down to tectonic plates and sometimes these plates slide inside the earth. This activity causes the earthquakes.Earthquake waves are also known as Seismic waves and they can be measured using a seismometer. The measurement gives an earthquake a number on the Richter scale. The largest earthquake ever recorded
Damage From Earthquakes Than MEDC's A MEDC is a more economically developed country; therefore it can afford to spend money on improving the countries stability and helping to decrease the damage from an earthquake. An example of a MEDC is Kobe, in Tokyo, where in January 1995; an earthquake that measured 7.5 on the Richter scale hit the city. A LEDC is a less economically developed country and therefore cannot afford to spend money to protect the country from earthquakes. An example of
Postwar Japan is characterized as much by its successes and booms as by its disasters and busts. Yoshimi Shunya’s article “Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella” begins by boldly claiming that, with the triple disaster of 3/11, Japan’s “’affluent postwar’ has finally reached a decisive end…[a] closure [that] had been clearly augured since the 1990s.” Yet, a decade earlier, Douglas McGray argued that Japan is “more like a cultural superpower today than it did in the 1980s,” having become a nation
location however acts as a hindrance to the expansion of Kobe leading to the construction of two artificial islands namely, Port Island and Rokko Island (Dodd & Richmond 2001). The city is however prone to earthquakes of a relatively high intensity. An example is the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 which led to massive loss of life and damages amounting to approximately 2.5% of Japan's GDP at the time. 1.4 Climate Kobe has a humid subtropical climate with relatively hot summers and winters ranging
Earthquakes are common in both California and Japan and sometimes these areas are hit by large magnitude earthquakes that cause vast destruction. This is the case for both the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (also commonly referred to as the Kobe Earthquake). Although both earthquakes were around a 6.0 magnitude and happened exactly one year apart from each other, they had very different impacts in terms of infrastructure, disruption of economy, health issues
Asbestos is fibrous and microscopic and is a set of six minerals which are silicate in nature.These six minerals are actonite,amosite,anthophylite chrysotile, crocidolote and tremolite. From these subdivions the most common in the living environment are amosite and chrysotile. (Mesothelioma.com, 2016) Asbestos has varying properties.It has the inherent properties of fire resistance and its ability to resist heat is well known. It is durable and has the ability to resist the progression of chemical
Abstract: Contemporary architects have a wide variety of sources to gain inspiration from, but this has not always been the case. How did modernism effect sources of inspiration? What did post-modernism do to liberate the choice of influences? Now that Contemporary architects have the freedom of choice, how are they using “traditional” styles and materials to inspire them? Even after modernism why are traditional styles still around? Through the modern era technologies evolved and avant garde