KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled much of the Japanese city of Kobe. The 7.2-magnitude quake ...

The number was a decrease of about 400 from the 20th anniversary ... south of Kobe. Her husband, Hidetaka, then 42, and his parents died in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake. She and her two sons ...

About 75,000 people visited the Kobe East Park to mourn the victims of the 1995 earthquake on the 30th anniversary. Just two days earlier, Japanese scientists had updated their estimated ...