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The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Firsthand Scenes of an Unprecedented Disaster

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (1)

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Kobe on January 17 was a city without color as seen from the sky, says photographer.
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Firefighters in the Nagata district of Kobe.
A bus that encountered an earthquake on the Hanshin Expressway. The driver, two crew members, and three passengers survived.
Hanshin Expressway collapse raises questions about earthquake-resistant building structures.
A water pipe ruptured, cutting off water supply and affecting firefighting efforts.
Cemetery on Awaji Island where the ground collapsed and tombstones were overturned.
A person being rescued from the Kobe City Nishimin Hospital, where 35 people were buried alive; work was difficult because the fifth floor had collapsed.
A cultural house in Nishinomiya City collapsed.
This building in Chuo Ward, Kobe, which tilted heavily, collapsed from the ground up in an aftershock on the following day, March 18.
One of the sites in the Kami-Oichi district of Nishinomiya City where the Sanyo Shinkansen overpass collapsed. Only the railroad tracks were lying in the air.
Liquefaction was also noticeable in reclaimed land in southern Hyogo Prefecture.

  • PHOTO： Naoki Kamidate (1st, 11th), Eiji Ikeda (2nd, 7th, 10th), Hiroshi Shibachi (3rd, 6th, 8th), Yutaka Asai (4th, 5th), Jun Mayumi (9th), Shinya Inui (12th)

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