Soft soil amplification of ambient seismic noise - Field measurements and numerical modeling of H/V ratios

Workshop Passive Seismic - Passive Seismic: Exploration and Monitoring Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lambert, M ^a   Steiner, B ^a   Schmalholz, S M ^a   Holzner, R ^b   Saenger, E H ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Spectraseis Technologie AG   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; HYDROCARBONS; SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BACKGROUND NOISE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; H/V SPECTRAL RATIO; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC BACKGROUND NOISE;

SOILS;

EID: 84898938737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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