Refraction microtremors: Data analysis and diagnostics of key hypotheses

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Strobbia, Claudio ^a   Cassiani, Giorgio ^b  

^a WESTERNGECO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; REFRACTION; SURFACE WAVES;

APPARENT VELOCITY; BASIC HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR ARRAYS; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; PASSIVE METHODS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION;

DATA HANDLING;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 84857334195     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3560246     Document Type: Article

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