Estimating site amplification factors from ambient noise

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Taylor, Steven R ^c   Gerstoft, Peter ^b   Fehler, Michael C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Rocky Mountain Geophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; ANELASTIC PROPERTIES; DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR; FORCING FUNCTION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HARD ROCKS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOWER DENSITY; NON-LINEARITY; RESONANCE PEAK; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SOFT ROCKS; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TIME PERIODS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RESONANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLIFICATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; NONLINEARITY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC NOISE; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOFT ROCK;

EID: 68149118096     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037838     Document Type: Article

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