BRI=Building Research Institute

damage survey of building initially posted as "UNSAFE" ONLY

Location: Kobe city 6 worst wards (30% Chuo-ku; Suma; Nagata; Hyogo; Nada; H-Nada)

Damage: 399 collapsed; 389 severely damaged; 28 completely burned; 15 partially burned

Though the main object of this investigation was for severely damaged buildings, there include some middle or minor damaged buildings

RC buildings the Steel buildings are the major because this investigation was for the buildings over 4-story in principle; in addition, steel and reinforced concrete (SCR) structure may have classified as RC because it was difficult to distinguish the difference between RC and SRC by looking

For the wood buildings residential use is the major of the usage and for the other structures mixed usage is the major

in the damaged data, reinforced concrete structure is the largest and then comes steel, and the other (most of them are wood structure)

about 80% of buidlings are the Rahmen structure for both direction

4 story building is the largest and then comes 5 story, 2-story, 3-story