Reproduction of microseism H/V spectral features using a three-dimensional complex topographical model of the sediment-bedrock interface in the Osaka sedimentary basin

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1060-1074

  Uebayashi, Hirotoshi ^a   Kawabe, Hidenori ^a   Kamae, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake ground motions; Numerical approximations and analysis; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENTIAL METHODS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; HIGH-PRECISION MODELS; HORIZONTAL MOTION; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; IRREGULAR TOPOGRAPHY; MICROTREMORS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PEAK FREQUENCIES; PRIORI INFORMATION; SEDIMENT-BEDROCK INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL CURVES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STEP STRUCTURE; STRONG GROUND MOTION; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TWO-COMPONENT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BEDROCK; GRABEN; GROUND MOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROTREMOR; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMOLOGY; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA [KINKI];

EID: 84859732539     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05408.x     Document Type: Article

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