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Single-station ellipticity retrieval and its joint inversion with dispersion curve, for a borehole test site

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To obtain the shear wave velocity profile for engineering application to near-subsurface, many geophysical techniques are used. The dispersion curve alone is unable to provide deeper shear wave velocity information for deep soil deposit; therefore, a joint inversion of dispersion curves with the horizontal over vertical (H/V) (i.e., apparently ellipticity) curve is recommended. The H/V curve obtained from the microtremor recording contains a major part of Love wave contribution to the noise wavefield horizontal component. Due to this presence of Love wave fraction, the H/V curve does not completely replicate the ellipticity of Rayleigh wave. In this study, we try to compare the Rayleigh wave ellipticity obtained from the borehole velocity model to the H/V curve obtained at the same locality from seismic ambient noise recording. Two different techniques available for the Love effect minimization are tested and compared with the borehole ellipticity. Finally, the joint inversion of H/V and dispersion curve is made, which shows great correspondence with the previous measurement at the site.

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Acknowledgements

We are thankful to Marcelo Assumpcao, Luis Galiardo, and Felipe Neves for providing the seismometers and helping in the noise recording. We would also like to thank the geopsy.com developer team and their contribution to the scientific community, and Manuel Hobiger for sharing his Rayleigh wave ellipticity curve estimation code for researching purposes. We appreciate the reviewers’ comments which greatly improved the work. The authors also acknowledge and wish to thank TWAS-CNPq for fellowship grant number 190038/2012-8 (CNPq/TWAS - Full-Time Ph.D. Fellowship - GD 2012) for the financial support.

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  1. Department of Geophysics—IAG, Sao Paulo University—USP, Rua do Matão, 1226, Cidade Universitária, Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-090, Brazil

    Irfan Ullah & Renato L. Prado

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Mona Lisa

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Ullah, I., Prado, R.L. & Lisa, M. Single-station ellipticity retrieval and its joint inversion with dispersion curve, for a borehole test site. Arab J Geosci 10, 316 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-3106-x

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