Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) Measurements in the Mirandola anticline area (Northern Italy)

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The Mirandola anticline represents a buried fault-propagation fold which has been growing during Quaternary due to the seismogenic activity of a blind segment belonging to the broader Ferrara Arc. The last reactivation occurred during the May 2012 Emilia sequence. In correspondence with this structure, the thickness of the marine and continental deposits of the Po Plain foredeep is particularly reduced. In order to better define the shallow geometry of this tectonic structure, and hence its recent activity, we investigated in a depth range which is intermediate between the surficial morphological observations and seismic profiles information. In particular, we carried out numerous passive seismic measurements (single-station microtremor) for obtaining the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio. The results of a combined analysis of the peak frequency and its amplitude nicely fit the available geological information, suggesting that this low-cost geophysical technique could be successfully applied in other sectors of wide morphologically flat alluvial plains to investigate blind and completely buried potential seismogenic structures.The complete dataset of 131 measurements, with HVSR curve in jpg format and peak frequency and amplitude of the ratio H/V values, is here provided.

Supplement to: Tarabusi, Gabriele; Caputo, Riccardo (2017): The use of HVSR measurements for investigating buried tectonic structures: the Mirandola anticline, Northern Italy, as a case study. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106(1), 341-353

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896394
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1322-3
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.896394
Provenance
Creator Tarabusi, Gabriele ORCID logo; Caputo, Riccardo ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2018
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 524 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.955W, 44.824S, 11.196E, 44.922N); Northern Italy