During the Great East Japan Earthquake, in areas 400 to 500 km from the epicenter with Japanese seismic intensity of 3, skyscrapers swayed greatly making the people insid [...]

One of the most important aspects of disaster mitigation in urban areas is the preparations residents take to make their own houses, towns and their living environments s [...]

In order to apply the empirical Green’s function method to predict wide area strong ground motion practically, the pseudo empirical Green’s function procedure is intr [...]

To confirm whether a seismometer placed on a special foundation can accurately record strong ground motion at the surface level, we perform analytical and experimental st [...]

A series of dynamic vibration experiment and educational devices, collectively named ‘BURURU’ are developed to facilitate and improve education regarding structural a [...]