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Did Arsenic Contamination in the Inagawa River Occur in Geogenic Relation to the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995?

✍ Scribed by Kumiko Ogoshi; Ippei Mori; Kaoru Gotoh; Kiyoshi Ogawa

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 401 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 0268-2605
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0739(199611)10:9<757::aid-aoc548>3.0.co;2-7

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✦ Synopsis

Arsenic contamination in river and ground water was investigated in the Inagawa area of Kansai district, Japan, from August to October, 1995. Arsenic has been continually detected at a level about 2 times higher than the environmental standard in the two tributaries of the Inagawa River, i.e. the Kimo and the Shio Rivers. The arsenic contamination was probably caused by the topographical change after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.