Simultaneous inversion of source spectra, attenuation parameters, and site responses: Application to the data of the French accelerometric network

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-219

  Drouet, Stéphane ^a,b   Chevrot, Sébastien ^b   Cotton, Fabrice ^c   Souriau, Annie ^b  

^a Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

ACCELEROMETRIC NETWORK; DISPLACEMENT SPECTRA; ITERATIVE GAUSS-NEWTON INVERSION; NONLINEAR PROBLEM;

EARTHQUAKES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; METHODOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 40549111343     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060215     Document Type: Article

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