Comparison of shear-wave slowness profiles at 10 strong-motion sites from noninvasive SASW measurements and measurements made in boreholes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3116-3133

  Brown, Leo T ^a,b   Boore, David M ^a   Stokoe II, Kenneth H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES;

PHASE VELOCITY;

SHEAR WAVES;

BOREHOLE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; SURFACE WAVE;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036946115     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020030     Document Type: Article

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