Seismic ambient noise tomography to retrieve near-surface properties in soils with significant 3D lateral heterogeneity: the case of Quinta Colorada building in Chapultepec, Mexico

Artifacts in high-frequency surface wave dispersion imaging

“…This approach has been applied to characterize multiple scales of earth structure: from global or continental scale deep-structure imaging in seismology (e.g., Yang et al, 2007;Lin et al, 2008;Yao and van der Hilst, 2009;Lin et al, 2009;Strobbia and Cassiani, 2011;Tibuleac and von Seggern, 2012;Becker and Knapmeyer-Endrun, 2018;Chen et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2022) to local scale exploration (e.g., Bakulin and Calvert, 2006;Wapenaar et al, 2008;Draganov et al, 2009;Nakata et al, 2011;Ali et al, 2013;Behm et al, 2014;Nakata et al, 2016;Behm et al, 2016;Castellanos et al, 2020;Cheng et al, 2021b). During the last decade, ambient noise interferometry has also found a variety of applications in the near-surface characterization domain (e.g., Foti et al, 2011;O'Connell and Turner, 2011;Xu et al, 2013;Cheng et al, 2015;Shirzad et al, 2015;Foti et al, 2018;Dou et al, 2017;Cheng et al, 2018a;Cárdenas-Soto et al, 2021;Fu et al, 2022). Considering ambient noise interferometry technique turns the physical receivers into virtual sources, it offers the potential to apply active-source seismic methods on passive-source seismic data.…”