Poster Session 5: Site Response Studies (Ambient Noise, Microtremors, H/V)

5.1 SEISMIC RESPONSE OF UNSTABLE MOUNTAIN ROCK SLOPES: TOPOGRAPHIC SITE EFFECT?, Jan Burjanek, Jeffrey R. Moore, Gabriela Gassner-Stamm, and Donat Fah.

5.2 EFFECTS OF EXISTING LANDSLIDES ON SEISMICALLY-INDUCED DISPLACEMENTS DUE TO INPUT-SLOPE INTERACTIONS, Luca Lenti and Salvatore Martino.

5.3 COHERENCE VS DISTANCE AT THE GARNER VALLEY AND WILDLIFE NEES@UCSB FIELD SITES: A COMPARISON USING ACTIVE SOURCE, Francesco Civilini and Jamison Steidl.

5.4 SPATIAL VARIATION OF SITE EFFECT IN HIROO TOWN, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN, Takahiro Maeda, Nobuo Takai, and Tsutomu Sasatani.

5.5 A COMPARISON OF AMPLITUDES OF NOISE CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS, Victor C. Tsai.

5.6 TOMOGRAPHIC ESTIMATION OF SURFACE-WAVE GROUP VELOCITY USING SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY IN SOUTHERN KANTO, JAPAN, Kosuke Chimoto and Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.7 MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR SURFACE WAVES: APPLICATION TO AMBIENT VIBRATIONS, Stefano Marano, Donat Fah, Christoph Reller, and Hans-Andrea Loeliger.

5.8 SITE RESPONSE AND AMBIENT NOISE CHARACTERISTICS AT THE NORTHEAST ITALY BROADBAND SEISMIC NETWORK, Milton Percy Plasencia Linares and Carla Barnaba.

5.9 DIFFUSE FIELDS IN LAYERED MEDIA, Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma, Hiroshi Kawase, and Shinichi Matsushima.

5.10 T-F-K ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES USING THE CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM, Valerio Poggi, Donat Fah, and Domenico Giardini.

5.12 ESTIMATION OF VELOCITY DISCONTINUITIES IN SEDIMENT OF YOKOHAMA REGION BY APPLYING NONSTATIONARY RAY DECOMPOSITION METHOD TO YOKOHAMA ARRAY RECORDINGS, Makiko Takagishi and Shigeo Kinoshita.

5.13 APPLICATION OF MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD IN INVERSION OF SURFACE-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY, Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.14 DEEP SEDIMENTARY LAYERS IN METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES ESTIMATED WITH THE JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTION AND SURFACE-WAVE DISPERSION, Rhommel Grutas and Hiroaki Yamanaka.

5.15 SHALLOW STRUCTURE OF TAIPEI BASIN USING HIGH-FREQUENCY RECEIVER FUNCTION TECHNIQUE, Che-Min Lin, Kuo-Liang Wen, Tao-Ming Chang, and Chun-Hsiang Kuo.

5.17 STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF EARTHQUAKE SITE RESPONSE FROM NOISE RECORDINGS, Valerio De Rubeis, Giovanna Cultrera, Heloise Cadet, Pierre-Yves Bard, and Nikos Theodoulidis.

5.18 THE EFFECT OF LATERAL HETEROGENEITY ON H/V SPECTRAL RATIO OF MICROTREMORS CONFIRMED FROM OBSERVATION AND SYNTHETICS, Shinichi Matsushima, Takanori Hirokawa, Hiroshi Kawase, and Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma.

5.19 MICROTREMOR BASED JOINT INVERSION FOR ESTIMATING S-WAVE VELOCITY PROFILE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL IRREGULAR GROUND, Hiroto Nakagawa and Shoichi Nakai.

5.21 RECURRENCE OF HORIZONTAL AMPLIFICATION AT ROCK SITES: A TEST USING H/V-BASED GROUND MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS, Marta Pischiutta, Antonio Rovelli, Paola Vannoli, and Giovanna Calderoni.

5.22 A PREDICTIVE EQUATION FOR THE VERTICAL-TO-HORIZONTAL RATIO OF GROUND-MOTION AT ROCK SITES BASED ON SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY PROFILES, Benjamin Edwards, Valerio Poggi, and Donat Fah.

5.23 CHARACTERIZING THE VERTICAL TO HORIZONTAL RATIO OF GROUND-MOTION IN SOFT SEDIMENT SITES, Valerio Poggi, Benjamin Edwards, and Donat Fah.

5.24 A STUDY ON THE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE USING MICROTREMORS AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE OSAKA PLAIN, Koki Tobita, Hiroshi Kawase, and Shinichi Matsushima.

5.25 SITE CHARACTERIZATION FOR URBAN SEISMIC HAZARD IN SINGAPORE FROM MICROTREMOR STUDY, Cheng Zhu, Kusnowidjaja Megawati, and Meya Yanger Walling.

5.26 DEEP S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURES IN THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA ESTIMATED BY THE H/V SPECTRAL RATIO USING CODA WAVES, Seiji Tsuno, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Shin'ichi Sakai, Naoshi Hirata, Keiji Kasahara, Hisanori Kimura, and Tamotsu Aketagawa.

5.27 SHALLOW S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURES OF THE TIEHCHENSHAN REGION IN TAICHUNG-MIAOLI AREA, TAIWAN, USING ARRAY RECORDS OF MICROTREMORS, Huey-Chu Huang, Che-Lun Yang, and Cheng-Feng Wu.

5.28 APPLICATION OF THE H/V SPECTRAL RATIOS FOR EARTHQUAKE AND MICROTREMOR GROUND MOTIONS, Hiroshi Kawase, Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma, and Shinichi Matsushima.

5.29 MICROTREMOR EXPLORATION AT SEVEN STRONG MOTION STATIONS IN CHILE, Shunichi Kataoka.

5.30 A PRELIMINARY RESULT OF SHALLOW S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURES IN THE TAIPEI BASIN, Chun-Hsiang Kuo, Tao-Ming Chang, Che-Min Lin, and Kuo-Liang Wen.

5.31 SURFACE WAVE ANALYSIS FOR SITE EFFECT EVALUATION, Ali Ismet Kanli.

5.32 ATTENUATION OF GROUND MOTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE MEXICAN SUBDUCTION ZONE, Hugo Cruz Jimenez, Francisco J. Chavez-Garcia, Takashi Furumura, and Martin Mai.

5.33 CAN HIGH DAILY-VARIATION OF NOISE LEVEL ALTER RESULTS OF AMBIENT VIBRATION H/V TECHNIQUE?, Fabrice Hollender, Marie Andre, Cedric Guyonnet-Benaize, Cecile Cornou, Veronique Caillot, and Pierre-Yves Bard.

5.34 THE ROLE OF SUBSOIL HETEROGENEITY IN THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BEDROCK CONSTITUTED RELIEF: TWO CASE STUDIES IN CENTRAL ITALY, Salomon Hailemikael, Luca Lenti, Salvatore Martino, Antonella Paciello, David Rossi, and Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza.