Introduction to the special issue of the Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) international guidelines for applying noninvasive geophysical techniques to characterize seismic site conditions

Affiliations

• ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, 350 North Akron Road, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA 94025 USA.
• ² Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
• ³ Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Division, Sidney, B.C. and of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, Msida Campus, Msida, Malta.
• ⁵ Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS, Sgonico, TS Italy.
• ⁶ Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany.
• ⁷ U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado USA.