Abstract
This research provides the method of "indoor-zoning" of a dwelling by which the probability potential of suffering injuries or death due to an earthquake can be evaluated. As a case study several apartment buildings damaged in the Miyagi-ken-oki earthquake of 1978 was estimated. From this analysis it is shown that the level of probability potential of suffering injuries differs from one space to another even in the same room and the spatial distribution of its potentiality can be visually understood. Such a method as proposed here should give us available information on floor planning and furnishings arrangement planning in order to maintain indoor security against earthquake.
