2002 Volume 4 Pages 87-94
The present paper deals with earthquake damage to residential lands. Althogh a failure of residential lands induced damage to houses and buildings extensively, it has not been paid attention well so far. The authors have investigated the damage to residential lands after the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake. The analysis of damage to residential lands in the 2001 Geiyo and the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu earthquakes in Japan and the 1999 Quindio earthquake in Colombia was conducted by using old edition topographical maps in various eras.