Deep shear wave velocity profiles from surface wave measurements in the Mississippi embayment

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 791-808

  Rosenblad, Brent L ^a   Li, Jianhua ^a   Menq, Farn Yuh ^b   Stokoe, Kenneth H ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE MEASUREMENTS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

COASTAL ZONE; DEPTH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SITE INVESTIGATION; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARKANSAS; MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36849047214     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.2790489     Document Type: Article

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