Array observations of microseismic noise and the nature of H/V in the mississippi embayment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2893-2911

  Langston, Charles A ^a   Chi Chiu, Shu Chioung ^a   Lawrence, Zack ^a   Bodin, Paul ^b   Horton, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; INCIDENT WAVES; LAYERED MEDIUM; LOVE-WAVE; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN WAVES; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; PROPAGATOR MATRIX; RAYLEIGH; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SPECTRAL PEAK; SURFACE WAVE MOTION; TIME PERIODS; TRAVEL TIME; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; WAVE AMPLIFICATION; WAVE CONVERSION;

AMPLIFICATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE INTERFACES; RESONANCE; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; AMPLIFICATION; ARRAY; GROUND MOTION; LAYERED MEDIUM; LOVE WAVE; OCEAN WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349862267     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080189     Document Type: Article

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