I think we can sometimes shift our focus from above the ground to under the ground where seismic waves actually came from. For example, in a numerical study, I noticed that liquefaction is not always destructive and a liquefied soil layer could have a pronounced seismic isolation effect. This idea is not new and a great number of case histories support it.

So using an engineered liquefiable soil layer, we might be able to achieve a kind of seismic isolation for a large scale area, rather than a specific structure. 

There are so many damping devices to decrease the vibration of a structure due to wind excitation or earthquake loads, such as all types of tuned mass dampers, tuned liquid dampers, friction dampers and fluid viscous dampers. These days, engineers and designers are using these kinds of dampers to design the slender structures, for instance, there are 11 tuned mass dampers in Burj Dubai (Khalifa), or in the Taipei 101, there is a huge tuned mass damper at top of the structure to reduce the response displacement. There are so many examples in the real world as well which were designed by seismic response control systems.

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I was actually focused on practical experience from the site.Passive control systems are now accepted all over the world and hence research in this area is continuing to develop reliable, efficient and cost effective devices along with constitutive modeling. For example : SEMI-ACTIVE FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS FOR SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL.

Maybe you try this:

Maryam Bitaraf and Stefan Hurlebaus:

Semi-active adaptive control of seismically excited 20-story nonlinear building, Engineering Structures 56 (2013) 2107–2118

It will bring you into adaptive techniques that try to fit the action to the appropriate situation.