Simulation of microtremor H/V responses to three simple sediment structure models using finite difference time domain method

Earthquake

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 74-81

  Peng, Fei ^a   Huang, Ling ^b   Chen, Qi Fu ^a   Liu, Lan Bo ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D simulation; Finite difference time domain; H V spectral ratio; Microtremor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872368761     PISSN: 10003274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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