The use of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity for site-specific hazard assessment and microzonation: Application to the city of Lucerne, Switzerland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1154-1172

  Poggi, Valerio ^a   Fäh, Donat ^a   Burjanek, Jan ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Site effects; Surface waves and free oscillations; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ARRAY ANALYSIS; BEDROCK DEPTH; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; DEEP SOILS; DENSE URBAN AREAS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; INVERSION SCHEME; MICROZONATION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OUTPUT VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVEFIELDS; SITE EFFECTS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOFT SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; SWITZERLAND; THREE-COMPONENT; WAVEFIELDS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AMPLIFICATION;

FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; QUATERNARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; TRANSFORM; ZONATION;

LUCERNE [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84857114748     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05305.x     Document Type: Article

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