Comparisons of shear-wave slowness in the Santa Clara Valley, California using blind interpretations of data from invasive and noninvasive methods

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1983-2003

  Boore, David M ^a   Asten, Michael W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; SHEAR WAVES;

DEEP BOREHOLES; INVASIVE METHODS; NON-INVASIVE METHODS; SANTA CLARA;

LANDFORMS;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; DATA INTERPRETATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA CLARA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45249096064     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070277     Document Type: Article

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