Shallow velocity structure using joint inversion of array and h/v spectral ratio of ambient noise: The case of Mula town (SE of Spain)

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 907-919

  Garcia Jerez A ^a   Navarro, M ^a,b   Alcala F J ^a,c   Luzon F ^a,b   Perez Ruiz J A ^a,b   Enomoto, T ^d   Vidal, F ^b   Ocana E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geotechnical studies; Microtremor; Shear velocity profile; SPAC

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AMBIENT NOISE; MICROTREMOR; SHALLOW VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SHEAR VELOCITY PROFILE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION (SPAC) METHOD; SPECTRAL RATIO;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

AMBIENT NOISE; AUTOCORRELATION; BASEMENT ROCK; DATA INVERSION; MICROTREMOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34347354364     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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