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The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio and its applications

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s13634-021-00765-z

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Earthquake recordings; Site effect; Site response; Horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR); S-wave spectral analysis; Ambient noise

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  1. Special Fund for Innovation Team, Gansu Earthquake Agency [2019TD-02-01]
  2. Earthquake Science and Technology Development Fund, Gansu Earthquake Agency [2020 M02, 2021010110]
  3. Earthquake Tracking and Directional Work Task for 2021 [2021010110]

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The HVSR method has been widely applied in site characterization and mineral exploration, with controversies existing in distinguishing source effects from site effects and discrepancies between noise and earthquake recordings. Borehole data is considered the most reliable method in practice, and shear wave comparison is used to describe site response.
The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) has been extensively used in site characterization utilizing recordings from microtremor and earthquake in recent years. This method is proposed based on ground pulsation, and then it has been applied to both S-wave and ambient noise, accordingly, in practical application also different. The main applications of HVSR are site classification, site effect study, mineral exploration, and acquisition of underground average shear-wave velocity structure. In site response estimates, the use of microtremors has been introduced long ago in Japan, while it has long been very controversial in this research area, as there are several studies reporting difficulties in recognizing the source effects from the pure site effects in noise recordings, as well as discrepancies between noise and earthquake recordings. In practice, the most reliable way is the borehole data, and the theoretical site response results were compared with the HVSR using shear wave to describe site response. This paper summarizes the applications of the HVSR method and draws conclusions that HVSR has been well applied in many fields at present, and it is expected to have a wider application in more fields according to its advantages.

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