Saturday, November 12, 2011

Re: SDS Value

I've used www.seismicfactor.com. You input the address and the building parameters and it computes the corresponding site coefficients and base shears. I have double checked it in triplicate and it jives. It gets the lat and long based on the address in google maps.

David
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On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Bill Polhemus <bill@polhemus.cc> wrote:

On 11/11/2011 3:51 PM, Tom.Hunt@fluor.com wrote:
Whooa,

In California you should never use Zip Codes for looking up seismic values. 

Heck, I don't even do that for any site, even if we're talking about Oklahoma or Kansas. Just makes no sense to go with a "zip code" when it's very easy to do exactly as you describe.