Earthquake damage - Toppled freeway - Kobe, Japan



Toppled freeway in Japan - A section of the Hanshin Expressway, damaged on January 17, 1995 during the magnitude 6.69 Kobe earthquake.

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Photo from the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) at UC Berkeley, photographer unknown. Reproduced on the NISEE website from Asahigraph, 1995. For more photos, see NISEE.

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