Recorded Responses of Building Structures during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake with Some Implications for Design Practice

During the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, a large number of response records from various types of buildings were obtained. The records give us the actual motions of buildings during the exceptionally large earthquakes that are considered comparable with design earthquakes. Various types of earthquake response records have been collected, and their properties with several buildings that will exhibit implications for structural design are discussed.