Extensive characterization of Italian accelerometric stations from single-station ambient-vibration measurements

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1821-1838

  Puglia, Rodolfo ^a   Albarello, Dario ^b   Gorini, Antonella ^c   Luzi, Lucia ^a   Marcucci, Sandro ^c   Pacor, Francesca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration measurements; HVSR; Strong motion database

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; EARTHQUAKE RECORDING; HIGH QUALITY; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; HVSR; LOW COSTS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENTS; MICROTREMORS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE PHENOMENA; SOIL CLASS; STRONG MOTION;

EARTHQUAKES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL SURVEYS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETER; AMBIENT NOISE; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; MICROTREMOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESONANCE; VIBRATION;

ITALY;

EID: 80855123795     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9305-z     Document Type: Article

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