Local site effects in the northern North Sea based on single-station spectral ratios of OBS recordings

Terra Nova

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-33

  Atakan, Kuvvet ^a   Havskov, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKES; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPH; SITE EFFECT; SITE EFFECTS; SITE RESPONSE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBSEA CONDITIONS;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0029751601     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1996.tb00722.x     Document Type: Article

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