Earthquake Memorial Day

18 years ago
7.2 on the richter scale
716 aftershocks
6430 deaths
457,905 households damaged
$102.5 billion worth of damage
50,000 people left Kobe as a result of the quake
An event lasting 20 seconds

1.38 million volunteers gave their time to help get the city back on it's feet.

Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take... but by what we give.
Edgar Allen