Smooth bumps in H/V curves over a broad area from single-station ambient noise recordings are meaningful and reveal the importance of Q in array processing: The Boumerdes (Algeria) case

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Guillier, B ^a,b   Chatelain, J L ^a,b   Hellel, M ^c   Machane, D ^b   Mezouer, N ^b   Salem, R Ben ^b   Oubaiche, E H ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Centre National de Recherche Appliquee en Genie Parasismique   (Algeria)

^c University Campus of Dely Ibrahim   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT NOISE; ARRAY PROCESSING; MICROTREMOR ARRAY DATA PROCESSING;

EARTHQUAKES;

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAM;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 32644433049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023726     Document Type: Article

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