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This proceedings, "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III", contains 116 papers presented at the 1998 Specialty Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics sponsored by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington, August 3-6, 1998. This conference is the third in a series of specialty conferences that have been held at ten-year intervals. This proceedings covers a broad field of topics that includes: ground motion; seismic hazard in the Pacific Northwest; seismic hazard analysis and design motions; dynamic soil properties; cyclic behavior of soils; liquefaction; experimental verification by model testing; site characterization; ground improvement; site response; displacement-based design; dams and embankments; retaining and waterfront structures; underground structures; and non-seismic and blasting vibrations. The monograph also includes ten invited papers on Emerging Art by outstanding researchers and practitioners. These papers focus on developments in important areas of geotechnical earthquake engineering practice in the past 10 years, and on anticipated developments in the next 10 years..
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This book points out the need of a multidisciplinary approach in the field of risk assessment and management and provides an overview of the problems, approaches and common practices directly related to the preparation of earthquake emergency plans. It is written by a team of specialists in different disciplines, all them deeply involved in earthquake risk, with strong co-ordination among them in order to have more unity and continuity along the whole text. Each topic is illustrated with examples of actual applications taken from the bibliography ? including web sites with available relevant information. Case-studies and information on some relevant international projects are given.

It can be used as a text book for a specialized post-graduate course on the topic. Students and professionals with a basic education in geology, geophysics, geotechnical and civil engineering, system analysis, geography and architecture are in an optimal starting position to gain thorough background information in this topic using this volume as a reference book which includes an extensive list of references.
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