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Ground Profile (soil) Ground Description Statigraphic Shear Wave

type (UBC) of Subsoil Description (UBC) Profile (EC8) Velocity Vs30


Class (E8) (ms-1)

SA (UBC) Hard Rock > 1500 (UBC)


SB (UBC) or A (EC8) Rock Rock or other rock-like 760-1500 (UBC) or
geological formation, > 800 (EC8)
including at most 5m of
weaker material at the
surface
SC (UBC) or B (EC8) Very dense soil and Deposit of very dense sand, 360-760 (UBC) or
soft rock gravel or very stiff clay, at 360-800 (EC8)
least several tens of m in
thickness, characterized by
a gradual increase of
mechanical properties with
depth

SD (UBC) or C (EC8 Stiff soil Deep deposits of dnse or 180-360 (UBC and
medium-dense sand, EC8)
gravel or stiff clay with
thickness from several tens
to many hundred of m
SE (UBC) or D (EC8) Soft soil Deposits of loose-to < 180 (UBC and
medium cohesionless soil EC8)
(with or without some soft
cohesive layers), or of
predominantly soft-to
cohesive soil

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