New circular-array microtremor techniques to infer love-wave phase velocities

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2912-2926

  Tada, Taku ^a   Cho, Ikuo ^a   Shinozaki, Yuzo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; ESTIMATION METHODS; L METHOD; LOVE WAVE; LOWER LIMITS; MICROTREMORS; PARTITION RATIOS; RAYLEIGH; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION METHODS; TEST SITE; TWO-COMPONENT; UPPER LIMITS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHASE VELOCITY;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ARRAY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LOVE WAVE; MICROTREMOR; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 70349852911     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090014     Document Type: Article

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