On the stability and reproducibility of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios on ambient noise: Case study of Cavola, Northern Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1263-1275

  Cara, Fabrizio ^a   Di Giulio, Giuseppe ^a   Milana, Giuliano ^a   Bordoni, Paola ^a   Haines, John ^b   Rovelli, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ANTHROPIC ACTIVITY; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; DENSE ARRAYS; GROUND-MOTION; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; IMPEDANCE CONTRAST; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROTREMORS; NOISE SOURCE; NORTHERN APENNINES; NORTHERN ITALY; PEAK FREQUENCIES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SEISMIC NOISE; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL PEAK; STIFFER MATERIALS; TIME WINDOWS; WAVEFIELDS;

SEDIMENTS; TIME SERIES;

STABILITY;

AMBIENT NOISE; MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

APENNINES; CAVOLA; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY; REGGIO NELL'EMILIA;

EID: 77952632810     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090086     Document Type: Article

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