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Since man has been erecting structures, earthquake ground motions have posed a threat to their stability. Only with the advent of and continual improvement to digital measurement, processing, and modeling techniques, have engineering seismologists been able to quantify the spreading of seismic waves in the Earth to facilitate site specific ground motions estimates for potentially damaging (i.e., ‘future’) earthquakes. These earthquake scenarios constitute the boundary conditions for earthquake-resistant design of buildings. The ground motions during an earthquake at a specific site are determined by the characteristics of the earthquake source, the travel path, and the local site conditions. Each of these links along the path of seismic waves influences the amplitudes, frequency content, and duration of the vibrations which ultimately influence the dynamic load of buildings. The chapter gives a brief introduction to the earthquake phenomenon and the spreading of seismic waves and the main characteristics and parameters of strong ground motions are explained. Further discussed are the effects of finite seismic sources and site effects due to the local geology on ground motions and spectra.

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Hinzen, KG. (2019). Seismic Loading. In: Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57550-5_2

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