Survivors commemorate major 1995 Kobe earthquake despite fading memories

Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that killed over 6,400 people in Kobe and the wider western Japan region in 1995, with concern now growing on the 31st anniversary that fading memories of the disaster are impacting preparedness for another.There is hope that lessons learned by those who lived through the magnitude-7.3 quake can be passed on to younger people in the region that is at risk of a megaquake in the Nankai Trough, a seismically active area stretching southwest of the Pacific coast in central Japan.A…READ FULL ARTICLE