Investigate the disappearance of Mr & Mrs Endo during the 1995 Kobe earthquake on January 17th and how this earthquake happened.

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In this enquiry I am going to investigate the disappearance of Mr & Mrs Endo in the 1995 Kobe earthquake on January 17th and how this earthquake happened. I hope to find all the information I need at Kobe when I arrive there. I also hope to achieve great success at trying to discover why so many people died in this life taking, heartbreaking earthquake and to make recommendations as to how this sort of disaster can be avoided in the future.

This is a map of Japan. Kobe is a port on the main island Honshu in south central Japan. The port is made out of reclaimed land.

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The relationship between the two plate boundaries is that they both slide past each other underneath the earths crust.

When the two plates move against each other they can sometimes become stuck this causes energy to build up between them because neither of them can move. When the energy is released tremors are sent through the ground, which causes an earthquake.

The Kobe earthquake was caused when the Eurasian plate collided with the Philippine plate on January 17th 1995 at 05:46am. As these two plates collided with each other there was a hazard of an earthquake ...

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