Cambridge Earthquake Impact Database
Earthquake
Kobe
Study
ERA

authors
Emergency Risk Assessment
Date
1996
Damage Scale
Report's own
Notes

Data came from excel spreadsheet provided by A. Pomonis, credited to BRI (1996) report p51-54

It was done for Condominiums, Mixed Res/Comm. buildings

It probably includes all the multi-storey residential buildings in these wards, the dataset noted that this assumption needs to be checked with the Census Tables, not available with this study

The intensity in these wards ranged from MM8 to MM10.5, on average MM9 (excl. Tarumi)

Sample: 6863 bldgs in the 7 worst affected wards

Use: House 194; Condo 4620; office 19; mixed 1648

Height: 221 (1-2F); 4854 (3-5F); 1046 (6-9F); 300 (10-14F); 21 (?15F)

Structure: 5877 (RC); 342 (SRC); 54 (precast RC)

Structural system: Frame 4516; Shear wall 1516

Damage: Fatal 274; Damaged 224; Safe 6327; X 38

All coordinates found in Google Earth

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