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: News and Features Article 2
: Kobe Quake : A Nightmare Come True
: by T. R. Reed
: Washington Post Service.
: Kobe, Japan
: Tall pillars of flame illuminated the night sky of this major port city early
: Wednesday, as emergency workers battled scores of fires in the aftermath of the
: ferocious earthquake that killed more than 1,700 people and destroyed thousands
: of buildings.
: "The death toll from the first tremor that struck before dawn on Tuesday and a
: long series of aftershocks could go above 2000," Kobe official said, "as rescue
: teams continued to find bodies under the rubble of nearly 4,000 buildings that
: were demolished."
: Nearly 100,000 people spent the night Tuesday in temporary housing and
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: schools in public buildings.
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: The national police said that 1,712 people were known dead. 985 were missing, a
: nd 6334 were injured. The tolls were expected to rise as communications were
: restored.
: The earthquake was the most lethal one in this land since 1948, when a quake,
: of 7.1 magnitude on the open-ended Richter scale, killed about 3600 people in
: Fukui prefecture, north of Osaka.
: The earthquake Tuesday, with a magnitude of 7.2, struck at 5:46 A.M. The
: epicenter was on the island of Awajishima, just outside Kobe harbor, in the
: inland sea. But that open-rule island reported relatively minor damage.
: Quakes of this magnitude often trigger tsunami or tidal waves, which can be
: as destructive as the quakes themselves.
: There were no tsunami Wednesday, perhaps because the inland sea is almost
: surrounded by land.
: The major destruction and lost of life occurred in the urban center of Kobe,
: the city of about 1.5 million and the chief port of Japan's industrial
: heartland. It is roughly at the center of Honshu, largest Japanese island.
: The first tremor, which lasted about 20 seconds, collapsed roads, knocked
: trains off their tracks, racked(?) docks, and separated(?) communications.
: //racked不確定 seperated聽起來比較像several 但是用後者又不合文法
: The considerably larger(還是large?) city of Osaka, a major financial center
: that borders Kobe to the east, suffered less damage.
: Two ancient capitals of Japan, Kyoto and Nara, both nearby and both home to
: many antique structures and artistic treasures, were shaken as well, and some
: cultural monuments were damaged.
: The quake was barely felt in Tokyo: 450 km, 280 miles, to the east.
: In Kobe, fires evidently caused by broken gas lines, continued to rage in the
: brisk night winds nearly 24 hours after the quake hit. With waterlines broken
: in many areas of the city, firefighters were handicapped in their efforts to
: dodge the flames.
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