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 …

Application of microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (MHVSR) analysis for site characterization: State of the art

S Molnar, JF Cassidy, S Castellaro, C Cornou… - Surveys in …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Nakamura (Q Rep Railway Tech Res Inst 30: 25–33, 1989) popularized the
application of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) analysis of microtremor …

Using S/P Amplitude Ratios to Constrain the Focal Mechanisms of Small Earthquakes

JL Hardebeck, PM Shearer - Bulletin of the …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We test whether S-wave/P-wave amplitude ratio data can improve the computed focal
mechanisms of small earthquakes, using events from two southern California aftershock …

Nonlinear ground-motion amplification by sediments during the 1994 Northridge earthquake

EH Field, PA Johnson, IA Beresnev, Y Zeng - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
It has been known since at least 1898 that sediments can amplify earthquake ground motion
relative to bedrock. For the weak ground motion accompanying small earthquakes, the …

Empirical attenuation of ground-motion spectral amplitudes in southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States

GM Atkinson - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A database of 1700 digital seismograms from 186 earthquakes of magnitude m N 2.5–5.6
that occurred in southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States from 1990 to 2003 …

Liquefaction hazard assessment in a seismically active region of Himalayas using geotechnical and geophysical investigations: a case study of the Jammu Region

A Ansari, F Zahoor, KS Rao, AK Jain - Bulletin of Engineering Geology …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Jammu Region (JR) in the northwestern Himalayas trigged by medium to high
magnitude near-field as well as far-field earthquake events, including the most recent 2019 …

Applicability of the Site Fundamental Frequency as a VS30 Proxy for Central and Eastern North America

B Hassani, GM Atkinson - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We introduce a new proxy measure for VS 30 (time‐averaged shear‐wave velocity in the
upper 30 m) for central and eastern North America (CENA). The new proxy is the site …

Calculation of broadband time histories of ground motion: Comparison of methods and validation using strong-ground motion from the 1994 Northridge earthquake

S Hartzell, S Harmsen, A Frankel… - Bulletin of the …, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This article compares techniques for calculating broadband time histories of ground motion
in the near field of a finite fault by comparing synthetics with the strong-motion data set for …

Borehole response studies at the Garner Valley downhole array, southern California

LF Bonilla, JH Steidl, JC Gariel… - Bulletin of the …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Garner Valley Downhole Array (GVDA) consists of a set of seven downhole
strong-motion instruments ranging from 0-to 500-m depth. One of the objectives of this …

Site condition evaluation using horizontal-to-vertical response spectral ratios of earthquakes in the NGA-West 2 and Japanese databases

H Ghofrani, GM Atkinson - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
We evaluate the usefulness of the horizontal-to-vertical (H/V) response spectral ratio as a
parameter to describe site response. In particular we compare its effectiveness with that of …