TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 428: Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions identifies and describes current practice and available methods for evaluating the influence of local ground conditions on earthquake design ground motions on a site-specific basis.
The report focuses on evaluating the response of soil deposits to strong ground shaking.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/14660.
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