Microtremor Measurements Used to Map Thickness of Soft Sediments

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 250-259

  Seht, Malte Ibs Von ^a   Wohlenberg, Jürgen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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