On January 1995, a disastrous earthquake struck Hyogo and Osaka prefectures in western Japan. It was a type of shallow dislocation earthquake and resulted in huge damage to the area. There are many hospitals, laboratories and universities in this area, and various kind of cryogenic and superconducting equipment including 185 superconducting MRI magnets is operation. The Cryogenic Association of Japan immediately organized a special committee in order to find out exactly what happened to this equipment as a result of the earthquake and to make suggestions on what we have to do for safe operation. This report describes the investigation results on damage to MRI, NMR magnets, Cold evaporator, storage tanks and other cryogenic and superconducting equipment.
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