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This study describes and evaluates important modern developments in geotechnical earthquake engineering. The current state of knowledge allows for the safe design and construction of critical structures subjected to earthquake loadings, although generally the margin of safety that has been incorporated in the design is not known precisely. For evaluation of the seismic stability of existing critical structures, the state of knowledge is sometimes inadequate. In the analysis of existing structures, conditions that are clearly safe and that are clearly unsafe can be distinguished. Between these two limits there are some practical cases that fall into a grey area, which will only be narrowed by further research and new full-scale response data. (Author)