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Extracting the Building Response Using Seismic Interferometry: Theory and Application to the Millikan Library in Pasadena, California

Roel Snieder¹ and Erdal afak²

¹ Center for Wave Phenomena
Colorado School of Mines
Golden Colorado 80401
rsnieder{at}mines.edu
 (R.S.)
² U.S. Geological Survey
Pasadena, California 91106
safak{at}usgs.gov
 (E.S.)

The motion of a building depends on the excitation, the coupling of the building to the ground, and the mechanical properties of the building. We separate the building response from the excitation and the ground coupling by deconvolving the motion recorded at different levels in the building and apply this to recordings of the motion in the Robert A. Millikan Library in Pasadena, California. This deconvolution allows for the separation of instrinsic attenuation and radiation damping. The waveforms obtained from deconvolution with the motion in the top floor show a superposition of one upgoing and one downgoing wave. The waveforms obtained by deconvolution with the motion in the basement can be formulated either as a sum of upgoing and downgoing waves, or as a sum over normal modes. Because these deconvolved waves for late time have a monochromatic character, they are most easily analyzed with normal-mode theory. For this building we estimate a shear velocity c = 322 m/sec and a quality factor Q = 20. These values explain both the propagating waves and the normal modes.

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