The shear wave velocity underneath Bucharest city, Romania, from the analysis of Love waves

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 965-979

  Sèbe, Olivier ^a,b   Forbriger, Thomas ^a   Ritter, Joachim R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Site effects; Surface waves and free oscillations; Time series analysis; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

LOVE WAVE; NEOGENE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SITE EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 61349139434     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04027.x     Document Type: Article

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