
Kobe city experienced a devastating natural disaster in 1995; 6.8 moment magnitude scale earthquake (7.2 the Richter scale) hit the city and cost lives of thousands of people and millions of money worth infrastructures. This earthquake was the worst earth quake in Japan since one in 1923. To learn more about this disaster, click this link.
Kobe city recovered incredibly fast from the disaster and learned lessons from harsh Mother Nature. Now the city works hard to educate people and promote disaster reduction measures for all people of the world. As part of the work, Kobe hosts a Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial)- DRI.
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DRI is a place to learn and feel the disasters that Nature cause. Striking pictures and 3-dimensional films show the edges of all feelings about natural disaster, there are centers and rooms to study more about disasters in interesting ways. View more of this at DRI.
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