TOKYO EARTHQUAKE PART A
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
THE WORLD
DISASTERS
Danger below
Tokyo stands near a fault line, one of the meeting-points of the moving continent-sized plates that form the Earth's crust. as the plates grind together, they release shock waves that are felt on the surface as violent tremors.
An ever-present risk
Even with the latest construction methods, cities still frace destruction today. The devastating 1995 earthquake at Kobe, 400 km southwest of Tokyo, caused US$ 10 billion in damage, killed 5,391 people and left another 310,000 homeless
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