Ambient noise measurements for preliminary site-effects characterization in the Urban area of Florence, Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1373-1388

  D'Amico, Vera ^a,b   Picozzi, Matteo ^a,b   Baliva, Francesco ^a,b   Albarello, Dario ^b  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AMPLIFICATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REGIONAL PLANNING; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE MEASUREMENTS; AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; BORE HOLE; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE MEASUREMENTS; FIRST ORDERS; FLORENCE , ITALY; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE FREQUENCY; IN ORDER; LOCAL SEISMIC RESPONSE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; SEISMIC NOISE; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL RATIOS; SUB SURFACE GEOMETRIES; URBAN AREAS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE EFFECT; URBAN AREA; VIBRATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 46149084208     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070231     Document Type: Article

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