Using the SPAC microtremor method to identify 2D effects and evaluate 1D shear-wave velocity profile in Valleys

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 826-847

  Claprood, M ^a   Asten, M W ^a   Kristek, J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D EFFECT; HIGHER MODE; JURASSIC; MICROTREMOR METHOD; MICROTREMORS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PALEOVALLEY; QUATERNARY PERIOD; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SOFT SEDIMENTS; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA; TRIANGULAR ARRAYS; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RATING; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SENSORS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LANDFORMS;

BEDROCK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABASE; JURASSIC; MICROTREMOR; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; QUATERNARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; LAUNCESTON; TAMAR VALLEY; TASMANIA;

EID: 79953045738     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090232     Document Type: Article

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