3D near-surface soil response from H/V ambient-noise ratios

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 865-876

  Wollery, Woolery ^a   Street, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Site effects

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

NOISE RATIOS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMBIENT NOISE; EARTHQUAKE; MODELING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036818045     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0267-7261(02)00109-4     Document Type: Article

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