Video: 'Great Hanshin/Kobe Earthquake 1995 - CCTV Footage 1'

(Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46 JST, January 16 at 20:46 UTC) — More than 6,000 people were killed this morning when the Great Hanshin earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan. The earthquake caused approximately ten trillion yen ($100 billion) in damage, 2.5% of Japan’s GDP at the time.

Video: 'Kobe Earthquake Disaster'