These two photographs show damage which resulted from the Kobe earthquake. This damage was in a rural area of Awaji Island. Most of the text book photographs are taken in urban areas where of course death and injury numbers were much higher.
	Notice: The height and line of the conifer trees on the first picture. They have been moved in two directions. On the second picture you can see a step in the ground where vertical movement occurred. The greenhouse is to protect the fault from erosion.

• Details
• Date: 5.46 am on January 17th 1995
• Focus: 14km below ground
• Force: 7.2 on the Richter Scale
• Shakink: Vertical and horizontal at the same time
• Deaths: 4,567 in Kobe
• Missing: 1 in Kobe
• Injured: 14,679 in Kobe
• Most deaths were people crushed in collapsing buildings

Further resources:

• Use the Internet: eg http://www.city.kobe.jp/index-e.html
• Various text books use Kobe as a case study

Why not

Write up this case study under the headings of:

• Details
• Causes
• Effects-immediate and secondary

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