要kobe earthquake的英文解釋!

Kobe Earthquake 即是神戶地震。
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/effects-kobe.html
Jan. 17, 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake
The worst earthquake catastrophe in years occurred on western Honshu Island early this year. More than 5000 people perished in southern Hyogo prefecture, most in the city of Kobe, Japan's most important port. The loss of so many lives, in a country where so much effort had been made to prepare for earthquakes, shocked observers worldwide. However, the magnitude of this catastrophe is probably due to a terrible coincidence of a few simple seismological and societal factors, which may become clear in the photos below.

圖片參考：http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/kobe/usgsmap-detail.gif

(from the USGS) Kobe is located farther than many other cities in Japan from the dangerous intersection of three tectonic plates: the Pacific, Eurasian, and Philippine. This triple junction is a junction of three compressive subduction zones. The red-hatched areas above are the parts of the subduction fault that had aleady broken in great earthquakes in 1944 and 1946. Kobe is also somewhat off the Median Tectonic Line, a zone of strike-slip faults.

圖片參考：http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/kobe/map0116_18.gif
(from the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo) This map shows the epicenters of the earthquake's aftershocks within the first two days afterward. Decades of observation show that the most reliable way to locate the fault that broke in any earthquake is to observe where aftershocks are concentrated. This map shows that the earthquake fault obliquely cut the north side of Awaji Island, and cossed the bay to run along the Honshu coast directly below the city of Kobe. Probably the most important coincidence leading to the mass casualties was this ``direct hit'' of the city by such a large faulting event. There was no intervening distance to mitigate the effects. The Northridge area of Los Angeles suffered a similar coincidence in January 17, 1994.