The buried shape of an alpine valley from gravity surveys, seismic and ambient noise analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 715-733

  Barnaba, C ^a   Marello, L ^b,c   Vuan, A ^a   Palmieri, F ^a   Romanelli, M ^a   Priolo, E ^a   Braitenberg, C ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake ground motions; Gravity anomalies and earth structure; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AMBIENT NOISE; BURIED STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GRAVITY SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROTREMOR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE EFFECT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VALLEY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ITALY; TAGLIAMENTO RIVER;

TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS;

EID: 74549174140     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04428.x     Document Type: Article

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