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...massive earthquake in Kobe is a reminder we cannot put all our confidence in governments or in scientific prediction...
...Please keep your spirits high,'' urged EMPRESS MICHIKO, gently touching the hands of refugees at an emergency shelter in Kobe. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept when the Empress, who is usually kept at a distance from ordinary Japanese, tenderly embraced her. Protocol yielded to compassion as the Empress accompanied Emperor Akihito on an eight-hour visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with...
Last month's earthquake in Kobe, at 7.2 in magnitude, was roughly 10 times as powerful as today's quake...
Scawthorn happened to be in Osaka when the quake hit and spent the next several days surveying the damage in Kobe. What he saw convinced him that relatively simple precautions could have prevented the most common form of damage: the roofs and upper stories of buildings crashing down onto lower floors. Such ``pancake'' collapses accounted for 90% of the 5,090 deaths in Kobe...
Many older commercial buildings in central Kobe, mostly constructed with reinforced concrete, suffered pancake collapses. In such cases the prescription is also to add stronger interior reinforcing, often by replacing a few existing room dividers with permanent, weight-bearing walls. Retrofitting buildings to survive another Big One is still rare in Japan, but in the wake of the Kobe tragedy it may catch on. By Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo