Ambient noise horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio in site effects estimation and correlation with seismic damage distribution in urban environment: The case of the city of Thessaloniki (Northern Greece)

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 261-274

  Panou, A A ^a,b   Theodulidis, N ^a   Hatzidimitriou, P ^b   Stylianidis, K ^b   Papazachos, C B ^b  

^a Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; H V ratio; Microzonation; Seismic damage; Site effects; Thessaloniki

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCIES; GEOLOGY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; URBAN PLANNING;

CONTOUR MAPS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL RATIO; THESSALONIKI, GREECE;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 18744372420     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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