Chapter 375: Hanshin

As for the specific details of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Ryumasa did not know. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

He didn't know about the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, which killed tens of thousands of people and cost $100 billion.

Osaka and Kobe are both important port cities in the western part of Japan's main island of Honshu, and Kobe is the second largest port in the world. However, the Great Hanshin Earthquake on January 17, 1995 plunged the two cities into a panic and caused huge losses of life and property.

At 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995, all the people in Osaka and Kobe who were still drowsy suddenly woke up with a strong tremor. The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that erupted in Awaji City, a city in southern Hyogo Prefecture, lasted for 20 seconds, and in an instant, 100,000 houses near the epicenter collapsed, another 185,000 houses were severely damaged, and 6,343 people were crushed to death by the collapsed houses, including 4,600 people in the Kobe area, which was closest to the epicenter. In addition, 415,000 people were injured in the earthquake.

Kobe is a famous historical city in Japan, and many of these old buildings were built to withstand typhoons, with roofs weighing about 2 tons, and the supporting columns were not strong enough, so many of them were destroyed in the earthquake. High-rise buildings built after 1981 have strong earthquake resistance and have not been damaged much in the earthquake.

In addition, about 120 of the 150 piers on the Kobe coast were destroyed, the 1,000-kilometer Hanshin section of the highway was paralyzed, the power supply was destroyed, and aftershocks continued - a total of 50 aftershocks exceeding the scale of 4 on the Richter scale in the five weeks following the earthquake caused many residents to dare not return to their homes, and their lives were thrown into chaos.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake caused direct economic losses of $100 billion, accounting for about 2.5% of Japan's GDP at the time. However, the biggest impact of the Great Hanshin Earthquake on Japan is that people have begun to doubt the government's ability to warn of earthquakes and provide disaster relief after the earthquake. Therefore, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, the Japanese government paid more attention to the earthquake resistance of housing buildings and the improvement of disaster relief mechanisms. Perhaps because of this, the Japanese government performed well in the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake 15 years later.

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After Ryuseong acquired Kanagawa Radio and Television, he canceled all of Kanagawa Radio and Television's entertainment programs and replaced them with earthquake prediction, prevention, and emergency relief programs. Kanagawa Radio and Television Station, which is not short of money, canceled all paid announcements in one go, and replaced them all with public service announcements for earthquake prevention and emergency relief. In the folk, people began to call Kanagawa Radio and Television Station an earthquake TV station because you can't see anything other than earthquakes on it.

Beginning on January 1, 93, Ryumasa even spent a huge amount of money to publish an advertisement in the mainstream media in the Hanshin area to persuade the local people to temporarily evacuate their homes.

The advertisement clearly states that according to the monitoring of the Rock Seismological Research Institute, the probability of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher in January '95 in the Hanshin area is as high as 30%.

In order to avoid the huge personal damage that may be caused by the earthquake, Ryumasa has built a model house complex in Kanagawa Prefecture that can accommodate 200,000 people at the same time, and has prepared daily necessities that can be used by 200,000 people for three consecutive months, called the Rock Temporary Home.

Any resident of the Hanshin area can come to the Rock Temporary Home for up to three months with a valid ID. Seats are limited and available until full. Once the 200,000 residents of the Hanshin area are full, the Rock Temporary Home will no longer accept a single person.

What Ryumasa did, the people in the Hanshin area not only didn't believe it, but spoke ill of each other.

The mayors of Kobe and Osaka have warned Ryumasa in public more than once. If Long Zheng doesn't stop these malicious rumors, the two major cities will directly issue a blocking order. Not only will Ryumasa never be allowed to enter the Hanshin area in the future, but Ryumasa will not be allowed to invest in the Hanshin area.

The words of the two mayors, Long Zheng didn't care. Not in his position, not in his politics. Because of his overwhelming report on the news of the imminent earthquake in the Hanshin area, the tourism and leisure and investment in the Hanshin area have indeed been greatly hit, and the two mayors have been disgraced by Long Zheng, and the helpless situation of the two is understandable.

Although the local people did not believe in Long Zheng's earthquake prediction, from January 1 to January 11, the model house group that could accommodate 200,000 people at the same time in the Panshi Temporary Home was fully occupied, and the Panshi Temporary Home no longer accepted any people.

The people who came to the temporary home in Panshi were all retired seniors and preschoolers.

Affected by the economic crisis, the Japanese people have suffered a lot, and now Kanagawa Prefecture has free accommodation and free meals, and you can also come to Kanagawa Prefecture for a trip by the way, and the retired elderly who have nothing to do at home will bring their children who have not yet gone to school to Kanagawa Prefecture and live in a temporary home in Panshi.

The model house group built by Long Zheng, who is not bad for money, has absolutely nothing to do with hardship. The first people found that the conditions of the temporary home of Panshi were good, and immediately called for friends, so the people of the Hanshin area who came to the temporary home of Panshi showed a geometric exponential increase. On the 11th, the model house group was fully occupied.

For the model house group, it is not that Long Zheng does not want to continue to expand, nor that Long Zheng has no money, but that Long Zheng really can't find a place. For Japan, where every inch of land is at a premium, it is not easy for Ryuzheng to find a place to build a new model house that can accommodate 200,000 people, which really amazes the officials of the Japanese government.

In addition to the overwhelming Hanshin earthquake publicity and the Rock Temporary Home, Ryuseong has a number of major initiatives for emergency relief after the earthquake.

First, taking advantage of the collapse of Japan's real estate, five plots of land were acquired in densely populated areas of Osaka and Kobe, and by now, all five plots of land have been converted into earthquake emergency shelters, equipped with a large amount of drinking water, food, medicine, and tents.

The second is to lease 100 earthquake rescue helicopters to be deployed in Nagoya City, which is relatively close to the Hanshin area, and all 100 earthquake rescue helicopters have been deployed since 1 January.

The third is to use all connections to persuade the Japanese Government to make early preparations. In the absence of results, Ryumasa worked with professionals to develop a detailed emergency rescue plan for the Great Hanshin Earthquake and submit it to the Japanese government. In the face of Ryuzheng's grandeur, the Japanese government promised that once the Great Hanshin earthquake really happened, then the Japanese government would fully learn from the emergency rescue plan submitted by Ryuzheng.

Fourth, fire extinguishers are distributed free of charge in the Hanshin area, and up to now, a total of 3 million fire extinguishers have been distributed.

Fifth, it donated 100 million US dollars to the Japanese government free of charge and asked the Japanese government to carry out earthquake emergency rescue training in the Hanshin area.

Up to now, the Japanese government has carried out three consecutive earthquake emergency rescue training in the entire Hanshin area in half a year. Because the scope of the training was too extensive, Ryumasa's $100 million donation had long since been exhausted, and the Japanese government later added an additional $50 million to complete the third earthquake rescue training.

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After arriving in Japan on the afternoon of 15 January, Long Zheng directly dragged Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama into the Panshi Earthquake Rescue Helicopter Base in Nagoya City, where a massive amount of earthquake relief materials worth as much as 500 million US dollars had been piled up, and all the staff of the Panshi Seismological Research Institute had also settled here. (To be continued.) )