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Research Articles

Simple assessment of shallow velocity structures with small-scale microtremor arrays: interval-averaged S-wave velocities

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Pages 922-927 | Received 11 Feb 2018, Accepted 18 Feb 2018, Published online: 04 Feb 2019

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