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    [edit] Volunteer Day by Cabinet order?

    "By cabinet order, January 17 is now Fire Protection and Volunteer Day across Japan." What's the relevance of this? It's not clearly explained. 85.211.42.232 01:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

    I tried to clarify this. See if it makes more sense now. Fg2 01:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
    Not ordered by the Cabinet. A source in Japanese says it was agreed at a Cabinet meeting on December, 15, 1995. I modified this part on March 28, 2008. Thank you so much. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Sources for "Plate tectonics"

    Do any of you know a good source in English which includes a plain explanation of "how an active fault inside a land plate causes an earthquake"? Kobe earthquake was of this type, so it made a term "活断層" (katsu-dansō; active fault) more famous in Japan, or infamous, I should say. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Confusion about Kobe earthquake

    When a cause of earthquakes is explained in English, the most popular one I guess is energy release around a plate boundary. Probably that's why no editor pointed out it's not the case with Kobe earthquake for this article for 2 years. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Copyright permission

    As to Source Z:

    Phew. I mispronounced "seismic" when I phoned MEXT to get a permission for utilizing Source Z. I asked in Japanese a division which controls it, specifying the section I wrote, and I got OK. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

    As to Source X, Y, and an Oxford dictionary:

    I think there's no need to ask for a permission. I used no copy from Source X, and cited only one sentence for a certain purpose from each of Source Y and the Oxford dictionary. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] JMA scale and Richter scale

    [edit] These are not the same.

    In news reports, a magnitude estimated by Japan Meteorological Agency is often described for accommodation as that on the Richter scale. However, JMA uses another scale than the Richter magnitude scale, which was the first-introduced magnitude scale in the world. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Two JMA magnitudes as results of scale revision

    JMA revised algorithm for the JMA magnitude scale, and introduced a new scale on Sep. 25, 2003. During the revision works, this earthquake's JMA magnitude was changed from MJ 7.2 to MJ 7.3 on April 23, 2001. As to this revision (in Japanese): a news release from JMA --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2008 (modified 08:28, 1 May 2008) (UTC)

    [edit] Foreshocks

    I've found that the largest foreshock of the four was observed at 18:28 the previous day and it measured 3.7 on the revised JMA magnitude scale by searching JMA database of felt earthquakes. As to the magnitudes of the 4 foreshocks, this paper (in Japanese) supports the expression "between 1.5 and 3.6" which I modified. However, that may be a recalculation of the data from a research center of a Kyoto University's institute, which observed the foreshocks and says the largest one was estimated at M3.3 (in Japanese). --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 03:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Private efforts, 'Other Effects' sections

    - I aggree that at this point, this article is a 'B.' there is a lot of literature on the earthquake, mostly in jp, to be fair, but surely there must be better sources in English. - provate efforts section: this section focusses on corporate efforts, but does not mention the contributions of ordinary citizens, which was by some acounts the most effective and numerous. Curiously enough, i gather organized crime also engaged in relief efforts, though don't have research on hand. - 'other effects' section: the word 'volunteer' entered the japanese vocab at that time and the japanese NPO law was created partly in response to the growth of citizens organizations established to provide relief. remember that japan does not have a charity culture like, say the UK and historic non-profit sector like, eg. Germany. an imporant local institution established at the time is fm waiwai, a multi-lingual broadcaster set up to emergency information to foreign residents (esp. Vietnamese and Korean). --Bine maya 16:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Personal experience

    Hi! I experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake when I was 1 year old. I almost died.

    Woah. Where were you? What happened, and do you remember what it looked like?

    Do you think you could tell me what happened? because it would be a great help for my geography project.


    I just saw a documentary about the Kobe earthquake on Discovery. They showed pictures of the faultline visible to the naked eye. One plate higher than the other, as Kobe lies in a subduction zone. Could someone upload a photo of that? Jordskjelv 13:40, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Most costly disaster

    " It was the worst earthquake in Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, which claimed 140,000 lives, and it is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the "costliest natural disaster to befall any one country," but it is expected that this earthquake will cede that title to Hurricane Katrina for the 2007 Guinness Book of Records. "

    The Great Kanto earthquake article states that that quake did over $1 billion damage in contemporary dollars, which would probably put it over the estimated $75 billion of Katrina when adjusted for inflation. Additionally, this article states that the Great Hanshin quake did $100 billion dollars in damage, which is far larger than Katrina's damage. Accordingly, I am editing the article. --172.164.108.116 02:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Plate movement of 50km?

    Seems a bit excessive...anybody care to check that fact out? CapeCodEph 04:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


    The Kobe Luminarie is not particularly near Shin Kobe station. It is closer to other stations such as JR Sannomiya. It would be more accurate to say it is held in central Kobe between Motomachi and Sannomiya near the Daimaru department store.

    [edit] A very good source on the quake

    http://gees.usc.edu/GEES/Reports/Report3/japan/KOBE.HTML

    I'm currently in correspondance with the author to get permission to release the images for use on Wikipedia. I'll put them up on Wikimedia Commons, if/when the author accepts. -- Exitmoose 00:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

    That was quick. I recieved permission to use the images in the report, so I'll upload some of the better ones to the Commons. -- Exitmoose 01:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] That Paragraph Comparing this with Northridge 1994

    Sorry, but that paragraph has got to go. Someone with some expertise, please help here. Weren't they about the same size? And wasn't the epicenter of the Northridge Quake directly under the city? Wasn't the epicenter of the Hanshin Quake in the bay somewhere? InFairness 22:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Bad source

    The source http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/66902.html should be removed. It is a commercial site selling proprietary term papers. Fg2 10:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Nothing in this article about worldwide shortage of computer chips !?!!

    I remember that following this earthquake there occurred a worldwide shortage of computer chips. This was apparently because the factory making most of the world's production was located in Kobe, and had been put out of action for a very long period. A black market in computer chips developed, and burglars began stealing chips to order. I remember coming into the office (in London UK) once day, to see all the PCs lying on the floor, with CPU boxes opened and microchips stolen - everything else including hard disk memory was intact, as the thieves had a sense of decorum. The bosses were then forced to buy back chips on the black market in order to get the office back into operation again. 16 July 2007

    [edit] Kobe earthquake and Sunflower in Japan

    A young girl, one of the victims of the earthquake, one day placed a sunflower seed into soil in the garden, and she didn't have any chance to see its blooming because she was death in the middle of the incident. However, her sunflower was not. It was blooming shiningly in the center of the destruction. Later Japan was fill up with sunflower for her memories. I've got that information form Discovery , however I really don't know whether it was true and update to the article, or we have to open a new stuff with "From other side" title?Hanzo2050 (talk) 05:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

    Again, it is just a short clip (about 2min), however it gives a great symbol of difficulty solution ability of the Japanese.Hanzo2050 (talk) 18:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

    Here and here, read it yourself.Hanzo2050 (talk) 18:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)