ABSTRACT
The Chi-Chi (also known as Ji-Ji in English) earthquake, with a Richter scale of 7.3, hit the central part of Taiwan at 1:47 a.m. on September 21, 1999. The earthquake caused devastating damage to campus buildings and reinforced slope failure at the National ChiNan University in Pu-Li, which is approximately 20 km northeast from the epicenter of Chi-Chi. This chapter analyzes the mechanism of the failure in terms of design aspects, seismic intensity, geological condition, and so forth. In addition, dynamic simulation of failure during the earthquake was performed using the finite-element software PLAXIS.
