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1 Vibrations of the TAIPEI 101 Skyscraper Caused by the 2011 Tohoku 2 Earthquake, Japan 3 4 Kou-Cheng Chen*, Jeen-Hwa Wang, Bor-Shouh Huang, Chun-Chi Liu, 5 and Win-Gee Huang 6 Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 7 P.O. Box 1-55, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Corresponding Author: 15 Kou-Cheng Chen 16 Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica 17 P.O. Box 1-55, Nankang, Taipei 11529 18 Taiwan, ROC 19 Email: chenkc@earth.sinica.edu.tw 20 Phone: 886-2-2783-9910 Ext:324 21 Fax: 886-2-2783-9871 1 22 Abstract 23 The strong-motion recordings generated by the 11 March 2011, Tohoku, Japan 24 earthquake recorded by the building seismic array in the TAIPEI 101, the second 25 tallest building in the world, are more complicated than those at the free-field stations. 26 Fundamental and higher-mode vibrations can be clearly seen on the spectra. The 27 fundamental-mode frequency is about 0.15 Hz, which is the natural frequency of the 28 skyscraper. Spectral ratios of ground accelerations at the building to those at a nearby 29 borehole station increase from unity at the fifth floor underground to factors of 110 30 and 146, respectively, on the 74th and 90th floors above ground for the 31 fundamental-mode vibrations. In addition, a second-order polynomial function can 32 well describe the correlation between the frequencies of fundamental and higher 33 modes and their ordinal numbers. The frequency content of accelerograms, recorded 34 on the fifth floor below ground from the great 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, appears 35 mainly