Riverview Plaza construction started
Riverview Plaza, formerly known as Wuhan Tiandi A1, is a 376-meter tall skyscraper in Wuhan, China. It is currently the third-tallest building in the city, behind Wuhan Greenland Center and Wuhan Center.
Great Hanshin earthquake
An earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale (XI-XII on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale). The tremors lasted for approximately 20 seconds. Approximately 6,434 people died as a result of this earthquake; about 4,600 of them 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 deadliest earthquake in the 20th century after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, which claimed more than 105,000 lives.
1994 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment magnitude 6.7 (Mw), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximately 10-20 seconds, and its peak ground acceleration of 1.82 g was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America. The peak ground velocity at the Rinaldi Receiving Station was 183 cm/s (4.1 mph; 6.6 km/h), the fastest ever recorded. Two 6.0 Mw aftershocks followed. The death toll was 57, with more than 9,000 injured. In addition, property damage was estimated to be $13-50 billion (equivalent to $24-93 billion in 2021), making it among the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
