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We would like to thank Mayssa Dabaghi, Morgan Moschetti, Ricardo Taborda, and the anonymous reviewer of this entry for their review and valuable feedback. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US government.

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Rezaeian, S., Sun, X. (2015). Stochastic Ground Motion Simulation. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_239

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