The Japanese government recently completed "Hanshin-Awaji ‧" Earthquake Disaster Studies, Statistics epicenter occurred in the northern part of the island of Awaji earthquake of 7.2 scale earthquake death toll more than five thousand five hundred, the number of injured in forty-one thousand five hundred or more, resulting in an estimated financial loss of about nine trillion six hundred billion yen, Japan's second postwar world once the costliest catastrophe.

"Hanshin Awaji" by the Japanese Fire Department took over two years to complete the earthquake disaster and countermeasure research report pointed out, the place at 5:46 on January 17, 1995 occurred in the bottom of the depth of fourteen km earthquake in Kobe and in addition to this continent quake measured six, but in Toyooka, measured five Kyoto, Osaka, Himeji, Wakayama and other places also measured four, the earthquake caused over more than one hundred or more the city, which, due to the collapse of houses and furniture crushed by four thousand eight hundred thirty-one, accounting for more than Eighty-eight percent of all deaths, the age distribution of deaths from younger than nine years old or more years old have.

It is worth mentioning that the study reported that just after the earthquake, around the same time, the frequent occurrence of fire, only Hyogo, Osaka, Kyoto and Nara County near the epicenter will be, due to the earthquake a fire burned the houses have a total of seven thousand and six hundred buildings, accounting for 100,000 destroyed buildings, destroyed one hundred and seven thousand and a half thousand buildings damaged houses very high proportion of the total number, caused by the earthquake a fire killed five hundred fifty people, accounting for all the deaths of ten percent.

In fact, estimates of the Economic Planning Agency, is currently only the amount needed to repair the damage as a basis, does not include bets during relief supplies, manpower, and even the United States foreign manpower, the Republic of China and other forty-four and provided material support.

Given the painful lessons "Hanshin-Awaji ‧" Earthquake, the Japanese government set up a "disaster plan review team to adapt to the system," and in 1995 a national scale with provision for an emergency response to the earthquake disaster prevention business requirements seven thousands of 90 billion yen, the emergency disaster countermeasures in Japan as one of the most important policy and revised basic disaster prevention plan, strengthen the function of the central Prevention and Relief session, additional items for earthquake disaster measures should be considered.

Japanese science and technology hall and decided to fight to take in the whole country set a thousand strong seismometers, combined treatment by the technology research disaster prevention Division mechanized to promote strong earthquake recorded publicly utilized, when reminded Japan towards wild on strong earthquake disasters importance to. Great Hanshin Earthquake posttherapy alert