A damage case of parallel strand cable anchorage was introduced, in which 7 strands were slipped from each wedge at the anchorage of the cable stayed bridge in service. Also, a cable damage detection scheme was proposed on the basis of tension force measurement and model updating method by least square estimation to minimize tension variation. The proposed scheme has been verified from analytical simulations and the actual damage case. The damaged cable leading to tension variation more than noise level of cable force measurement was successfully detected with 7~8 strands damage indication of 2% error in the actual strand slippage case.