The stability of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio of triggered noise and earthquake recordings

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1407-1413

  Mucciarelli, Marco ^a   Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria ^b   Arcieri, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

RESONANCE PEAKS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AMPLIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 0043241638     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020213     Document Type: Article

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