Study on Strategy for the Seismic Risk Mitigation in Dwellings in the Case of the Advanced Generation

Abstract

This paper reports that how persons of advanced age who tend to spend much time in their dwellings are at the indoor seismic risk. The authors met fourteen residents living in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, and investigated their daily life-style and spatial characteristics of their rooms, mainly furniture. Based on the information, some indoor seismic risk potential of each household and indivisual risk potential were calculated. Using these results,which depend on indivisual conditions, an efficient countermeasure against damage due to an earthquake was proposed.