A SURVEY FOR PRESENT STATE OF EARTHQUAKE MOTION OBSERVATION IN BUILDINGS

Abstract

To estimate the state of buildings, which have a seismometer, summaries of technical paper of an annual meeting from 2002 to 2008 are surveyed. As a result, 140 papers those are related to an earthquake response had been presented. Number of instrumented buildings is 119. Followings are major findings of this survey. 1) These numbers are larger than the result by the same kind of previous survey. 2) Buildings less than five stories occupy one third of the whole. 3) There are several papers that report wooden house response. 4) Most of the instrumented buildings are located in metropolitan areas.