Site effects in Mexico City: Constraints from surface wave inversion of shallow refraction data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 157-165

  Ramos Martinez J ^a,c   Chavez Garcia F J ^a,b   Romero Jimenez E ^a   Rodriguez Zuniga J L ^a   Gomez Gonzalez J M ^a  

^a FJBS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Dispersion; Inversion; Mexico City; Site effects; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES;

DATA INVERSION; REFRACTION ANALYSIS; SITE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

DATA INVERSION; SEISMIC DATA; SITE EFFECT; SURFACE WAVE;

MEXICO, MEXICO CITY, TEXCOCO LAKE;

EID: 0031105878     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(96)00057-2     Document Type: Article

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