Ambient vibration measurements in the Southern Rhine Graben close to Basle

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1771-1781

  Köhler, Andreas ^a   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^a   Stange, Stefan ^b   Kind, Fortunat ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Rohstoffe/Bergbau Baden Wurttemberg   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Converium Ltd ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration; Array analysis; Fundamental frequency; H V ratio; Rhine Rift valley

Indexed keywords

RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC WAVE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN; WORLD;

EID: 17644403985     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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