Direct estimation of the Rayleigh wave phase velocity in microtremors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Shiraishi, Hidetaka ^a   Matsuoka, Tatsuro ^a   Asanuma, Hiroshi ^b  

^a CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE IN SAITAMA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COHERENT LIGHT; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES; PHASE VELOCITY;

DIRECT ESTIMATION METHOD; MIROTREMORS;

SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

AUTOCORRELATION; AZIMUTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROTREMOR; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SENSOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; COHERENCE FUNCTION; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS; SOLUTION METHODS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS;

EID: 38349143865     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026723     Document Type: Article

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