ocr: Chronology Environment, 1995 Japan's deadliest earthquake since 1923 shatters Kobe and the surrounding Kinkki region January17. Registering 7.2 on the Richter scale, it kills more than 5,000, injures more than 25,000, leaves an estimated 316,00U homeless, and causes perhaps $80 billion in property damage. Click image to enlarge
