Kobe marks 27th anniversary of deadly quake

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Kobe marks 27th anniversary of deadly quake

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overview of Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2022, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people. The western Japan city of Kobe on Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed 6,434 people in the area. Local residents and victims' families observed a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m., the time the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck the port city in Hyogo Prefecture and neighboring areas on Jan. 17, 1995. In a predawn event at Higashi Yuenchi, a park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, people lit about 3,000 bamboo lanterns that were aligned to form "1.17," the date of the disaster.

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