One fifth of the city's 1.5 million population was left homeless, and more than 103,521 buildings were destroyed. The aftershock zone is based on locations by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, using data from the microearthquake networks of Kyoto, Tokyo, and Nagoya Universities. The strong motion data are from the Committee of Earthquake Observation and Research in the Kansai Area, JR, Osaka Gas, and JMA, and represent different measures of ground motion, as described in the text.
Italicized values indicate inexact station locations.
Modified from K. Koketsu, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo. The rupture of this strike-slip earthquake directly into downtown Kobe, as inferred from the aftershock distribution and the waveform modeling of teleseismic and strong motion seismograms, appears to have contributed to the high level of destruction that occurred. Locations of aftershocks. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. Focal mechanism and source process of the earthquake.