Abstract
Damage statistics of more than 650 masonry, steel, and reinforced concrete buildings that survived the Bam earthquake are provided. Distribution and statistics of the buildings characteristics are also presented. The damage distributions are divided based on whether the survived buildings found to be safe, need retrofitting or demolition. The information helps providing some clarification about the reasons that some building survived the Bam earthquake but others did not.
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