Kobe – Kobe on Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed 6,434 people in the area.
Local residents and victims’ families observed a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m., the time the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and neighboring areas on Jan. 17, 1995.
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