A method to estimate phase velocities of Rayleigh waves using microseisms simultaneously observed at two sites

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 961-976

  Morikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Sawada, Sumio ^b   Akamatsu, Junpei ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMOGRAPHS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FREQUENCY-WAVE NUMBER (F-K) METHOD; MICROTREMORS; PHASE VELOCITIES; RAYLEIGH WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

MICROTREMOR; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 4243096215     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030020     Document Type: Article

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