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. (Author/publisher) This report is available online at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_428.pdf
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