Analysis of three-component ambient vibration array measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 199-213

  Fäh, Donat ^a   Stamm, Gabriela ^a   Havenith, Hans Balder ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Site effects; Surface waves and free oscillations; Time series analysis; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; DATA INVERSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUND MOTION; LOVE WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 37449008047     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03625.x     Document Type: Article

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