What happened to people

living in Kobe?
 Where is Kobe?
Kobe is a city in Japan.
Japan is in Eastern Asia
and is an MEDC.
Kobe is on the biggest
island called Honshu.
Population: 1,521,164
Density: 2759 Km2
Area: 551.40 km²11111
 After effects
• People were put in schools, town halls
and forced to live there
• Winter in Japan = -2 degrees
• Difficulty getting aid to the areas that
were worst hit.
• Roads destroyed
• Large scale problem = difficult for the
government to cope
 Transport
• The Hanshin express
runs through Kobe.
• The intercity bullet
train runs through the
city
• The large modern port
handles millions of
tonnes of trade each
year.
• Sections of the roads built on concrete stilts
collapsed.
• The Hanshin expressway was completely shut down.
• A 130km section of the bullet train had to be
closed.
• At the port 120 (out of 150) quays were destroyed.
 How did the authorities cope?
• water, electricity, gas, telephone services were fully
working by July 1995
• The railways were back in service by August 1995
• A year after the earthquake, 80% of the port was
working but the Hanshin Expressway was still closed.
• By January 1999, 134,000 housing units had been
constructed but some people were still having to live
in temporary accommodation.
• New laws were passed to make buildings and
transport structures even more earthquake proof.
• More instruments were installed in the area to
monitor earthquake movements
A decade on …