TOKYO — In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur in the same region, a Nikkei study shows.
Friday marks the 30th year since the Jan. 17, 1995, earthquake shook the Osaka-Kobe area, killing more than 4,000 people and destroying 400,000 buildings. The region is located adjacent the Nankai Trough, an undersea fault line running off the coast of Shizuoka prefecture near Tokyo to Miyazaki prefecture further southwest.
