CONTENT : 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to earthquake geotechnical engineering 3 - Subhamoy Bhattacharya 2 Seismic Hazards 1Fault movement related damage examples and fault provisioned design case histories17 - Jorgen Johansson and Kazuo Konagai 2 Tsunami: A seismic hazard 47 - Anil C. Wijeyewickrema 3 Seismic hazard assessment for foundation design 59 - Suresh R Dash and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 4 Construction of uniform hazard spectra using Monte-Carlo simulation 71 - Tapan Sen 3 Liquefaction 1 iquefaction - Susceptibility, assessment and remediation 85 - A.J. Brennan, L. Govin daraju and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 4 Ground Response Studies 1 Mechanism of site amplification and its prediction 125 - Nozomu Yoshida 2 valuation of local site effects on ground motion from geomorphologic and geological information 171 - Saburoh Midorikawa 3 Influence of stress path on dynamic properties of granular materials 185 - T. G. Sitharam and J. S. Vinod 5 Dams and Retaining Walls 1 Performance of dams during 2001 Bhuj earthquake: Some design issues 197 - L. Govindraju 2 Computations of seismic earth pressures for design of earth retaining structures 209 - Deepankar Choudhury Chapter 6 Piled Foundation 1 Earthquake engineering research on pile foundations with emphasis on pile foundations subjected to large ground deformations 227 - Takashi Tazoh 2 A review of methods for pile design in seismically liquefiable soils 255 - Subhamoy Bhattacharya 3 Dynamic behaviour of piled foundations in liquefiable soils during strong earthquakes 299 - Subhamoy Bhattacharya andSondipon Adhikari 4 Buckling and bending of slender piles in liquefiable soils during earthquakes: a probabilistic analysis 319 - Sumanta Haldar, G. L. Sivakumar Babu and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 5 Essential criteria for seismic design of piled foundations in liquefiable soil 345 - Suresh R Dash and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 7. Modelling of Soil-Structure Interaction 1 Modelling dynamic soil structure interaction under seismic loads 353 - Barnali Ghosh and Zygmunt Lubkowski 8. Applications 1 Applications on hazard assessment and liquefaction389 - L.Govindaraju, A. J. Brennan, Pijush Samui, Subhamoy Bhattacharya 2 Example of a site response analysis for a location in Kolkata 405 - Barnali Ghosh, Pijush Samui and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 3 Seismic design of a typical piled foundation in reclaimed lands of 417 Rajarhat susceptible to cyclic failure - Gautam Adak, Gautam Bhattacharya and Subhamoy Bhattacharya 4 Seismic site characterization of nuclear facilities in India 435 - A. Boominathan Appendix A Engineering correlations for seismic design of foundations 451 - Subhamoy Bhattacharya and Barnali Ghosh Appendix B Plates 465