A review of the microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (MHVSR) method

S Molnar, A Sirohey, J Assaf, PY Bard, S Castellaro… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The single-station microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (MHVSR) method was
initially proposed to retrieve the site amplification function and its resonance frequencies …

The nature of noise wavefield and its applications for site effects studies: A literature review

S Bonnefoy-Claudet, F Cotton, PY Bard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to discuss the existing scientific literature in order to gather all the
available information dealing with the origin and the nature of the ambient seismic noise …

An improved neighborhood algorithm: parameter conditions and dynamic scaling

M Wathelet - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Neighborhood Algorithm (NA) is a popular direct search inversion technique. For
dispersion curve inversion, physical conditions between parameters Vs and Vp (linked by …

H/V ratio: a tool for site effects evaluation. Results from 1-D noise simulations

BC Sylvette, C Cécile, B Pierre-Yves… - Geophysical Journal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Ambient vibration techniques such as the H/V method may have the potential to significantly
contribute to site effect evaluation, particularly in urban areas. Previous studies interpret the …

Surface‐wave inversion using a direct search algorithm and its application to ambient vibration measurements

M Wathelet, D Jongmans, M Ohrnberger - Near surface geophysics, 2004 - earthdoc.org
Passive recordings of seismic noise are increasingly used in earthquake engineering to
measure in situ the shear‐wave velocity profile at a given site. Ambient vibrations, which are …

Application of surface-wave methods for seismic site characterization

S Foti, S Parolai, D Albarello, M Picozzi - Surveys in geophysics, 2011 - Springer
Surface-wave dispersion analysis is widely used in geophysics to infer a shear wave
velocity model of the subsoil for a wide variety of applications. A shear-wave velocity model …

Urban seismic site characterization by fiber‐optic seismology

ZJ Spica, M Perton, ER Martin… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate ground motion prediction requires detailed site effect assessment, but in urban
areas where such assessments are most important, geotechnical surveys are difficult to …

用微动中的面波信息探测地壳浅部的速度结构

何正勤, 丁志峰, 贾辉, 叶太兰 - 地球物理学报, 2007 - dzkx.org
本文介绍了利用地脉动中的面波信息探测地壳浅部横波速度结构的观测方法, 仪器设备,
野外数据采集和用空间自相关方法测定相速度及相关的数据处理方法, 并给出了在两个场地的 …

S-wave velocity profiling by joint inversion of microtremor dispersion curve and horizontal-to-vertical (H/V) spectrum

H Arai, K Tokimatsu - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A joint inverse analysis using both microtremor dispersion curve and horizontal-to-vertical
(H/V) spectrum is proposed for estimating the S-wave velocity (VS) profiles of subsurface …

Effects of Love waves on microtremor H/V ratio

S Bonnefoy-Claudet, A Köhler… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The horizontal-to-vertical (H/V) method has the potential to significantly contribute to site
effects evaluation, in particular in urban areas. Within the European project, site effects …