Microtremor measurements in the City of Palermo, Italy: Analysis of the correlation between local geology and damage

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1354-1372

  Cara, Fabrizio ^a   Cultrera, Giovanna ^a   Azzara, Riccardo Mario ^a   De Rubeis, Valerio ^a   Di Giulio, Giuseppe ^a   Giammarinaro, Maria Stella ^b   Tosi, Patrizia ^a   Vallone, Paola ^b   Rovelli, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH SCIENCES; FISH; FREQUENCY BANDS; GEOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; THEOREM PROVING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; 2D TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ALLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; AMBIENT NOISE MEASUREMENTS; CANONICAL CORRELATIONS; CENTURY (CO); DATA SETS; EUROPEAN; FACTOR ANALYSIS (FA); FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (FF); GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HAZARD ZONES; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIO (HVSR); LIGHT DAMAGE; LINEAR COMBINATION (LC); LOCAL DAMAGE; MACROSEISMIC; MACROSEISMIC DATA; MEDIUM FREQUENCY RANGE; MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENTS; NEAR SURFACE GEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PALERMO; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SOFT SOILS; SPECTRAL PEAKS; THRESHOLD VALUE(T); TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

CORRELATION METHODS;

AMBIENT NOISE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROEARTHQUAKE; MICROTREMOR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC NOISE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PALERMO [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 43449116147     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060260     Document Type: Article

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