Research Article

Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) to Estimate the Shear Wave Velocity for Engineering Characterization of Soils at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

Table 2

MASW data acquisition parameters.

Energy/sourceSledge hammer

Geophone24 geophones of 4.5 Hz frequency
Stack5
Geophone distance5 m
Length of spread115 m
Shot positionEvery 5 m interval (starting from -2.5 m to 117.5 m)
Recoding time2000 ms
Sampling0.125 ms
FilterOpen