Emergency response : lessons learned from the Kobe earthquake.

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TextSeries: Preliminary paper ; #260Publication details: [Newark, Del. : University of Delaware], 1997Description: 14 pDDC classification:

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Subject: The Kobe earthquake of January 17, 1995 was the most devastating natural disaster to strike Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake anf fire of 1923. A total of 6,279 persons died as a result of the earthquake; nearly 90% of the deaths occurred as a direct result of building collapse, and the remainder were due largely to the fires that broke out following the earthquake. The greatest loss of life occurred in the cities of Kobe (4,484), Nishinomiya (1,107) and Ashiya (453). An estimated 34,9000 people were injured. Vulnerability was related to age and gender; residents 60 years of age and above were significantly more likely to die in the earthquake than those who were younger. With the exception of children under ten, more women than men were killed in every age group

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The Kobe earthquake of January 17, 1995 was the most devastating natural disaster to strike Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake anf fire of 1923. A total of 6,279 persons died as a result of the earthquake; nearly 90% of the deaths occurred as a direct result of building collapse, and the remainder were due largely to the fires that broke out following the earthquake. The greatest loss of life occurred in the cities of Kobe (4,484), Nishinomiya (1,107) and Ashiya (453). An estimated 34,9000 people were injured. Vulnerability was related to age and gender; residents 60 years of age and above were significantly more likely to die in the earthquake than those who were younger. With the exception of children under ten, more women than men were killed in every age group

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