Abstract
The great catastrophic earthquake occurred at 5:46 on January 17, 1995. Over 5,500 people were reported killed, more than 26,000 people were injured, and over 300,000 people were left homeless. Current estimates of losses are about 20 trillion yen. From this earthquake, we learned a lot of lessons for the earthquake engineering, seismology, earthquake disaster countermeasures and disaster preparedness. This report describe the major lessons for the engineering point as follows;
1) The earthquake occurred just beneath of the highly developed urban area.
2) The damages concentrated to the aged structures and the less aseismic capacity structures.
3) Did the myth of aseismic safety in Japan destroyed?
