Local site effects in the town of Benevento (Italy) from noise measurements

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1745-1764

  Maresca, Rosalba ^a   Castellano, Mario ^b   De Matteis, Raffaella ^a   Saccorotti, Gilberto ^b   Vaccariello, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b IstNazGeofis/Vulcanologia Osserv   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benevento; Noise; Site response

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT;

BENEVENTO; CAMPANIA; ITALY;

EID: 0042346292     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2376-2     Document Type: Article

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