The use of ambient seismic noise measurements for the estimation of surface soil effects: The Motril City case (Southern Spain)

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1549-1559

  Al Yuncha, Z ^a,b   Luzon F ^a,b   Posadas, A ^a,b   Martin J ^a,b   Alguacil, G ^b   Almendros, J ^b   Sanchez S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b Observatorio de Cartuja   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient seismic noise; Microtremors; Seismic microzonation; Spectral ratio

Indexed keywords

MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC NOISE; SOIL DYNAMICS;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; MOTRIL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 3142634643     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2520-7     Document Type: Article

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