1. Fault Activity and Earthquake Proof Design -- Preface -- 2. Analysis of Strong Motion Records from the Southern Hyogo Earthquake of January 17, 1995 -- 3. Earthquake-Related Ground Motion and Ground-Water Pressure Change at the Kamaishi Mine -- 4. Fault Movement and Its Impact on Ground Deformations and Engineering Structures -- 5. The 1995 7.2 Magnitude Kobe Earthquake and the Arima-Takatsuki Tectonic Line: Implications of the Seismic Risk for Central Japan -- 6. The 1995 Kobe Earthquake and Problems of Evaluation of Active Faults in Japan -- 7. Modeling of the Interaction between Destructive Inland Earthquakes and Large off Coast Earthquakes in Central and South-West Japan -- 8. A New Opportunity to Detect Paleo-Earthquake Events Dating Back to the Past 10 Millennia: A Record from Lacustrine Sediment -- 9. Seismotectonic Environment and Design Basis Earthquake for the Darlington Nuclear Power Station.