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The reason that so many people died in the Kobe earthquake, rather than in the other major earthquakes in the world, is because Kobe is one of the most popular cities to be hit by a major earthquake. The fact that it hit in 5 in the morning, meant that everybody was in there poorly structured houses that were not made to resist the force of a 7.2 scaled earthquakes.

The older, more traditional houses were the ones that killed most. With heavy rooves and only four wooden posts to hold them up, they were not built for earthquakes at all: Infact, their purpose was to shield against typhoons. They fell down in the pankcake effect (see seconds until disaster:Kobe Earthquake). Many people were crushed under the weight of their rooves, whilst their wooden houses burned.

Also the Japanese government was shocked by what had happened, for some strange reason, and it took a while for the emergency services to get up and in action. Kobe is just 20km from the epicentre of the earthquake so that had devastation effects too.

A large amount of people died from a wall of fire, approx 5m high and because is was so heavily populated. People had no where to run, as it only lasted 28.557 seconds.

Japan is placed on 3 plate boundaries Eurasian, pacific, and Philippines.

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