Determination of shallow shear wave velocity profiles in the cologne, Germany area using ambient vibrations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 597-612

  Scherbaum, Frank ^a   Hinzen, Klaus G ^b   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Abt/Erdbebengeologic der Univ zu   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambient vibrations; Array measurements; Shear wave velocity profile; Site effects

Indexed keywords

GROUND MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SH-WAVE; SITE EFFECT; VIBRATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 0037342923     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01856.x     Document Type: Article

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