The day the earth shook :
5000 people died. Less people died in north ridge.
Los angeles: earthquake hits with magnitude 6.7 * 57 people died.
Big city earthquake will happen again but will not cause massive loss.
City of kobe: 5400 deaths many fires started around the city which burnt the whole city down. Water tanks even became empty and could not take out all the fires.
Homes were made out of mud and straw at the bottom and tiled ceilings and roofs which collapsed when the hurricane hit.
Why did this happen?
Northern japan is sittin on a plate.
Los angelas is sittin on a pacific plate. Which is sliding every year few centimeters leading the state up towards Alaska. \however it is not smoothly sliding because of the ridges hiting one another, so there are mountains that have been formed . this is the case both in los angelos and japan.

In los angeles most impact of the earthquake was in the mountains, and the city of los angelos was spared. However in kobe, the fault line shifted rite under the city where there were many buildings. Famous saying that “earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.
Kobe is densily populated. North ridge on other hand was that the earthquake broke off to the northern part of the city where it was away from the city and more so directed into less dense areas. Therefore, less people and damage was done.
Why was one area shaking to the ground and one not?

Kobe has mountains on one side and basin on other. Basin- soft soil. When waves hit the basin, they go back creating more waves.
Kobe lies on a thin strip of land.
47 billion dollars in damages .
Tokyo is preparing it self for the next earthquake. They have placed many measured. Emergency rations will be stored in various areas all around in japan.
Supplies ad water will never run out again.
Also people are trained by putin into rooms that showcase how earthquakes will occur. P and s waves are shown to people to limit the fear. These rooms, first show primary vertical waves, then come the horizontal ones and last as long as kobe’s.
Secondary waves are what do the damage and come slower versus the primary one. Primary waves are fast and quick. Waves about 2 miles per hour and radios waves run too quickly.

Japans railing system has thermometers placed on the tracks and when anything is sensed it is automatically come to a stop. And the railway trains on the ground which are much slower, are stopped once the first primary wave occurs.