2000 Volume 2 Pages 179-186
On the 1948 Fukui earthquake,which is one of the most disasterous in-land earthquakes in Japan,different damage statistics and damage maps of wooden houses have been reported.The damage statistics data of the earthquake are compiled and examined.The difference of the data comes mainly from the different definitions of the damage.Using several kinds of the Statistical data,with adjsutment to the common structural damage index,the more reliable damage map of the earthquake is drawn The obtained damage map indicates that the area with higher damage ratios spreads to the southeast part of the Fukui plain,compared with the damage map proposed by Takeyama ct al.(1951).
