Great Hanshin earthquake were from Kobe. Among major cities, Kobe, with its population of 1.5 million, was the closest to the epicenter and hit by the strongest tremors. This was Japan's worst earthquake in the 20th century after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, which claimed more than 105,000 lives. Most of the largest earthquakes in Japan are caused by subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate or Pacific Plate, with mechanisms that involve either energy released within the subducting plate or the accumulation and sudden release of stress in the overlying plate. Earthquakes of these types are especially frequent in the coastal regions
1923 Great Kantō earthquake study engineering. On the way, the 1923 earthquake strikes, damaging the train and causing a huge fire in the city. In the 2017 josei manga "Fushigi Yûgi Byakko Senki" (by Yuu Watase), the heroine Suzuno Osugi enters "The Universe of the Four Gods" during the earthquake after her dying father Takao orders her to so she will survive the disaster. After a brief time there she's sent back to the already destroyed Tokyo and she, alongside her prospect love interest Seiji Horie and two young boys named Hideo and Kenichi, are taken in by a friend of the late Takao,