Soils and Foundations

The DVD for the Special Issue on GeotechnicalAspects of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku
Earthquake was published in January 2015

On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 in the afternoon, an earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 occurred with the focus off
the Sanriku Coast. The earthquake was the largest in recorded history in Japan and was named “The 2011 off thePacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake” by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The Cabinet officially named this disasterthe “Great East Japan Earthquake.”
We were published the October 2012 issue as the special issue which collects important articles, including a wide
spectrum of case histories, on the disaster due to 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake from geotechnicalaspects. This Special Issue can be accessed for free via the following link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00380806/52/5
In this time, we collect more articles, pictures and movies and re-edit thisissue as DVD. It was published in January 2015. When you order the DVD,
please send us the order form on the other side of this leaf
CONTENTS
Picture: Photographs on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake damage
Movie: Movies on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake damage
Manuscript:
1. Frontispiece (Photographs on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake damage(Special issue on geotechnical aspects of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku
Earthquake, Soils and Foundations))
2. Preface (Message from the President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society), by T. Sueoka
3. Ground motion characteristics during the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by H. Goto and H. Morikawa
4. The impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami disaster and implications to the reconstruction, by S. Koshimura, S. Hayashi and H.
Gokon
5. Damage statistics (Summary of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake damage), by M. Kazama and T. Noda
6. Characteristics of liquefaction in Tokyo Bay area by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, by S. Yasuda, K. Harada, K. Ishikawa and Y.
Kanemaru
7. Liquefaction in the Kanto region during the 2011 off the pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake, by I. Towhata, S. Maruyama, K. Kasuda, J.
Koseki, K. Wakamatsu, H. Kiku, T. Kiyota, S. Yasuda, Y. Taguchi, S. Aoyama and T. Hayashida
8. Liquefaction in Tohoku district during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by A. Yamaguchi, T. Mori, M. Kazama and N.
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9. Effect of earthquake ground motions on soil liquefaction, by S. Unjoh, M. Kaneko, S. Kataoka, K. Nagaya and K. Matsuoka
10. Seismic design of highway bridge foundations with the effects of liquefaction since the 1995 Kobe earthquake, by K. Tamura
11. Earthquake-induced landslides: distribution, motion and mechanisms, by S. Nakamura, A. Wakai, J. Umemura, H. Sugimoto and T. Takeshi
12. Wide-area land subsidence caused by the “the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake”, by T. Imakiire and M. Koarai
13. Geo-environmental issues induced by the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami, by T. Inui, T. Yasutaka, K. Endo and T.
Katsumi
14. Damage to railway earth structures and foundations caused by the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by J. Koseki, M. Koda, S.
Matsuo, H. Takasaki and T. Fujiwara
15. Damage patterns of river embankments due to the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and a numerical modeling of thedeformation of river embankments with a clayey subsoil layer, by F. Oka, P. Tsai, S. Kimoto and R. Kato
16. Damage to coastal structures, by Y. Kikuchi, T. Sugano, A. Nozu, E. Kohama and K. Shimosako
17. The damage to hillside embankments in Sendai city during The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by T. Mori, Y. Tobita and T.
Okimura18. Building damage during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by M. Motosaka and K. Mitsuji
19. Safety inspections and seismic behavior of embankment dams during the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake, by Y. Yamaguchi, M.
Kondo and T. Kobori
20. Damage to agricultural facilities, by Y. Mohri, S. Masukawa, T. Hori and M. Ariyoshi
21. Damage to Sewage Systems Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and Governmental Policy, by M. Matsuhashi, I. Tsushima, W. Fukatani
and T. Yokota
22. Building damage associated with geotechnical problems in the 2011 Tohoku Pacific Earthquake, by K. Tokimatsu, S. Tamura, H. Suzuki and K.
Katsumata
23. Slope failures in residential land on valley fills in Yamamoto town, by M. Hyodo, R.P. Orense, S. Noda, S. Furukawa and T. Furui
24. Soil liquefaction observed at the lower stream of Tonegawa river during the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, by Y. Tsukamoto,
S. Kawabe and T. Kokusho
25. Seismic behavior of piled raft with ground improvement supporting a base-isolated building on soft ground in Tokyo, by K. Yamashita, J.
Hamada, S. Onimaru and M. Higashino
26. Reconnaissance report on damage in and around river levees caused by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake

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27. Lessons for countermeasures using earth structures against tsunami obtained in the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
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