Site amplification and attenuation via downhole array seismogram inversion: A comparative study of the 2003 Miyagi-Oki aftershock sequence

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 301-330

  Assimaki, Dominic ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Steidl, Jamison H ^b   Tsuda, Kenichi ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DECONVOLUTION; EARTHQUAKES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SOIL MECHANICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; SEISMIC MOTION; SEISMOGRAM;

SEISMOGRAPHS;

AFTERSHOCK; AMPLIFICATION; CORRELATION; DATA INVERSION; DECONVOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMOGRAM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 40549142780     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070030     Document Type: Article

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