Vol.:(0123456789) Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-019-00746-6 1 3 ORIGINAL RESEARCH NDE1.0: a new database of earthquake data recordings from buildings for engineering applications Ariana Astorga 1  · Philippe Guéguen 1  · Subash Ghimire 1  · Toshihide Kashima 2 Received: 11 July 2019 / Accepted: 23 October 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019 Abstract Over the last two decades, seismic ground motion prediction has been signifcantly improved thanks to the development of shared, open, worldwide databases (waveform and parametric values). Unlike seismic ground motion, earthquake data recorded in buildings are rarely shared. However, their contribution could be essential for evaluating the per- formance of structures. Increasing interest in deploying instrumentation in buildings gives hope for new observations, leading to better understanding of behavior. This manuscript presents a fat-fle containing information on earthquake responses of instrumented build- ings. Herein, we present the structure of the NDE1.0 fat-fle containing structural response parameters (i.e. drift ratio, peak top values of acceleration, velocity and displacement, pre- and co-seismic fundamental frequencies) computed for several intensity measures char- acterizing ground motion (i.e. peak ground values of acceleration, velocity and displace- ment, spectral values, Arias intensity, strong motion duration, cumulative absolute velocity, destructive potential). The data are from real earthquake recordings collected in buildings over the years. Some building, site and earthquake characteristics are also included (i.e. structural design, shear wave velocity, magnitude, epicentral distance, etc.). This 1.0 ver- sion contains 8520 strong motion recordings that correspond to 118 buildings and 2737 events, providing useful information for analyses related to seismic hazard, variability of building responses, structural health monitoring, nonlinear studies, damage prediction, etc. Keywords Structural response · Seismic database · Earthquakes · Buildings 1 Introduction The probabilistic estimation of losses due to earthquake damage of buildings requires the analysis of diferent and independent components (i.e. Porter 2003). The underlying proba- bilistic framework proposed by the Pacifc Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) for * Ariana Astorga ariana-lucia.astorga-nino@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr 1 ISTerre, IFSTTAR, IRD, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France 2 International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE), Building Research Institute (BRI), Tsukuba, Japan