Effects of love waves on microtremor H/V ratio

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 288-300

  Bonnefoy Claudet, Sylvette ^a   Köhler, Andreas ^b   Cornou, Cécile ^c   Wathelet, Marc ^c   Bard, Pierre Yves ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; RAYLEIGH WAVES; STRESSES; VISCOELASTICITY;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; DYNAMIC GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; MICROTREMOR; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AMBIENT NOISE; AUTOCORRELATION; GREEN FUNCTION; LOVE WAVE; MICROTREMOR; MODELING; RESONANCE; SEISMIC NOISE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 40549087650     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070063     Document Type: Article

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