The importance of converted waves in comparing H/V and RSM site response estimates

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 304-313

  Parolai, Stefano ^a   Richwalski, Sandra M ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL (H/V) SPECTRAL RATIO TECHNIQUE; REFERENCE-SITE METHOD (RSM);

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 1842831450     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030013     Document Type: Article

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