High frequency attenuation of shear waves in the southeastern Alps and northern Dinarides

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1393-1416

  Gentili, Stefania ^a   Franceschina, Gianlorenzo ^b  

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

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake source observations; Seismic attenuation; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; AVERAGE FREQUENCY; BODY WAVES; BOTTOM LAYERS; CORNER FREQUENCY; DINARIDES; EARTHQUAKE SIZE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FAULT ZONE; FOURIER SPECTRA; GENERALIZED INVERSION; HARD ROCKS; HIGH FREQUENCY ATTENUATION; HIGH QUALITY; LINEAR MODEL; MOTION DATA; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACHES; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; PO PLAIN; QUALITY FACTORS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; S-WAVES; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SITE EFFECTS; SLOVENIA; SOUTHEASTERN ALPS; SPECTRAL DECAY; STRONG MOTION; STRONG MOTION DATUM; THEORETICAL VALUES; THREE COMPONENT; THREE-LAYER; WAVE FORMS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY BANDS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; BODY WAVE; DATA INVERSION; LINEARITY; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; SITE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALPS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EID: 79956128951     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05016.x     Document Type: Article

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