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We conducted a damage survey of the wooden structures and collected very dense ambient noise measurements in the near-source region of the 2011 Northern Nagano earthquake in central Japan. The percentage of totally collapsed buildings exceeded 30 % in the Aokura and Yokokura colonies of Sakae village, Nagano prefecture. The percentage in the Mori colony, where a strong motion was recorded during the mainshock, was <10 %. We estimated the strong motion in the Aokura and Mori colonies from the ambient noise measurements and strong motion records. The estimated strong motion distribution reflects the soil conditions and varies within that small area. The correlation of the estimated strong motion and damage ratio of the wooden structures is reasonably high, which indicates that the estimated ground motions are realistic. The damage curve obtained in this research shows that the collapse ratio exceeds 50 % at around 150 cm/s of input ground motion.
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We thank Earthquake Research Institute in University of Tokyo for providing the SK-net dataset, Japan Railway for providing the strong motion data recorded at Takatori station during the 1995 Kobe earthquake, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention for providing the K-net and KiK-net dataset. We also acknowledge the town halls in Sakae village, Nagano prefecture, and Tsunan town, Niigata prefecture, for providing the damage data. Dr. Toshiyuki Kagawa also helped us with the damage survey. We used the Generic Mapping Tools (Wessel and Smith 1998) for mapping.
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Yamada, M., Yamada, M., Smyth, C., Fukuda, Y., Fujino, Y., Hada, K. (2014). Estimation of Strong Motion During the 2011 Northern Nagano Earthquake and an Associated Building Damage Survey. In: Kawase, H. (eds) Studies on the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake. Natural Disaster Science and Mitigation Engineering: DPRI reports. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54418-0_7
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