Japan is in a seismically active area and experiences many damaging earthquakes with loss of life. In 1995, the Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake caused major destruction in Kobe City and in 2011 the Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami caused major destruction in the Pacific coast areas of northeastern Japan. Additionally, recent relatively less destructive earthquakes include the 2003 Tokachi-O...

The USM tower consists of 10 floors used as offices, parking and educational facilities with a total height 48.5 m. Earthquake resistance analysis needs to be carried out on buildings built in earthquake areas. This study uses dynamic the response spectrum method, aiming evaluate structure according SNI 1726:2012. What is reviewed this period, base shear, drift, level building performance. resu...

“Yoneko’s Earthquake” is a masterpiece among the short stories by Japanese American writer Hisaye Yamamoto, and it reflects plight tragedy of women. The plot story seemingly simple but profound, especially design underlying text, which full ingenuity. From perspective postcolonial ecocriticism, Yamamoto’s complicity colonialism ecologism in many aspects. Take close look at natural images (the d...

Research concerning the impact of earthquake victims' individual behavior and its association with earthquake-related injuries is lacking. This study examined this relationship along with effectiveness of earthquake rescue measures. The six most severely destroyed townships during the Lushan earthquake were examined; 28 villages and three earthquake victims' settlement camp areas were selected ...

Physical modeling of earthquake generation processes is essential to further our understanding of seismic hazard. However, the scale-dependent nature of earthquake rupture processes is further complicated by the heterogeneous nature of the crust. Despite significant advances in the understanding of earthquake generation processes, and the derivation of underlying physical laws, controversy rema...

According to the features and demands of earthquake rescue on-site, automatic modelling and scene generation methods based on fundamental geographic data were investigated, and an earthquake scene model was proposed considering both effect of local site conditions on ground motion and vulnerability of different buildings. Based on ArcGIS Engine, the system in which the scene of pre-earthquake a...

This experimental investigation deals with the earthquake behaviour of a nominally symmetric and a mass-asymmetric three-storey structural model isolated with the frictional pendulum system (FPS). Both accidental and natural torsion are evaluated in the structure by using recorded accelerations in all building oors and measured deformations at the isolation level. A 3D-shaking table was used to...