The Kobe earthquake has so far produced no sharp aftershocks, geologists say.
Signals of this type were recorded 6.5 hours before the 1996 Kobe earthquake in Japan, for example.
He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
The worst decline since last year's Kobe earthquake, it was a sign that the economy may be headed back into a recession, economists said.
The budgets included $50 billion in 1995 alone for relief and reconstruction after the Kobe earthquake.
Like the terrorist attack, the Kobe earthquake killed thousands of innocent people without warning.
The school was strongly affected by the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
The Kobe earthquake "showed that these houses are stronger, because they remained standing."
A woman spends five days obsessively watching television coverage of the Kobe earthquake, then leaves her husband, apparently for good.
The Kobe earthquake was a prime example of how much damage an earthquake can do.