The Ataköy vertical array (Turkey): Insights into seismic wave propagation in the shallow-most crustal layers by waveform deconvolution

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1649-1662

  Parolai, Stefano ^a   Ansal, Atilla ^c   Kurtulus, Asli ^c   Strollo, Angelo ^a,b   Wang, Rongjiang ^a   Zschau, J ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake ground motions; Interferometry; Site effects

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DECONVOLUTION; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; GROUND MOTION; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PEAK ACCELERATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 69149096386     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04257.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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