Three-dimensional imaging of shear wave velocity in the uppermost 30 m of the soil column in Anchorage, Alaska

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 983-997

  Badal, José ^a   Dutta, Utpal ^b   Serón, Francisco ^a   Biswas, Niren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; High frequency Rayleigh waves; Inversion; Laplacian interpolation

Indexed keywords

RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE EFFECT; SOIL DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; ANCHORAGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644274744     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02327.x     Document Type: Article

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