S-wave velocity profiling by inversion of microtremor H/V spectrum

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-63

  Arai, Hiroshi ^a   Tokimatsu, Kohji ^b  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

MICROTREMORS; SUBSURFACE SOILS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE; MICROTREMOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 1842831994     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030028     Document Type: Article

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