Can we estimate local Love wave dispersion properties from collocated amplitude measurements of translations and rotations?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kurrle, Dieter ^a   Igel, Heiner ^a   Ferreira, Ana M G ^b,c   Wassermann, Joachim ^a   Schreiber, Ulrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d Forschungseinrichtung S   (Germany)

Author keywords

Love wave dispersion; ring laser; rotational ground motion

Indexed keywords

RING LASERS; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENTS; BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GROUND MOTIONS; LOVE WAVE DISPERSION; PLANE WAVE PROPAGATION; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 77957731231     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042215     Document Type: Article

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