Ambient noise levels in greece as recorded at the hellenic unified seismic network

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2507-2517

  Evangelidis, C P ^a   Melis, N S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

And movie describing microseismic noise measurements; And tables; Figures; Table of seismic sensor description

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AND TABLES; BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVEFORMS; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOUBLE FREQUENCY; FIGURES; HIGH FREQUENCY; IONIAN SEA; NETWORK OPERATOR; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE MODELS; NOISE THRESHOLDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA WAVES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC SENSOR; SEISMIC STATION; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SOURCE OF NOISE; STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; METEOROLOGY; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SITE SELECTION; WATER WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND DATA; DIURNAL VARIATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; MICROEARTHQUAKE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

GREECE;

EID: 84870823668     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110319     Document Type: Article

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