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.

Area: 551.40 km²11111

Population: 1,521,164

Density: 2759 Km2

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 How did the authorities cope?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 …