Examining ambient noise using colocated measurements of rotational and translational motion

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 787-796

  Hadziioannou, Celine ^a   Gaebler, Peter ^b   Schreiber, Ulrich ^c   Wassermann, Joachim ^a   Igel, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Fundamental Station Wettzell   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Ring laser; Rotational ground motion

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AZIMUTH; GROUND MOTION; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPH;

EID: 84866000903     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-012-9288-5     Document Type: Article

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