Shear wave velocity structure of the Izmit Bay area (Turkey) estimated from active-passive array surface wave and single-station microtremor methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1603-1618

  Zor, Ekrem ^a   Özalaybey, Serdar ^a   Karaaslan, Aylin ^a   Tapirdamaz, M Cengiz ^a   Özalaybey, Suna Ç ^a   Tarancioĝlu, Adil ^a   Erkan, Bora ^a  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Site effects; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; ARRAY MEASUREMENTS; ARRAY SURFACE; BAY AREAS; BEDROCK STRUCTURES; DISPERSION CURVES; FREQUENCY RANGES; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; IZMIT BAY; MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENTS; MICROTREMOR METHOD; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION; SEDIMENT-BEDROCK INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SHEAR VELOCITY MODELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SITE CLASSIFICATION; SITE EFFECTS; VELOCITY-DEPTH MODEL;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISPERSION (WAVES); RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

MICROTREMOR; MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE EFFECT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

IZMIT BAY; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 77955806291     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04710.x     Document Type: Article

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