“…However, it only started to gain significant interest from the international scientific community after the catastrophic disaster of Mexico City during the Michoacán Mexico earthquake in 1985, where strong amplification due to soft clay layers caused many high‐rise buildings to collapse despite their long distance from the seismic source (Singh et al., 1988). In the past few decades, studies of site effects on seismic ground motions induced by surface geology and subsurface structures have pushed the science forward (Bard, 1994; Wen et al., 2018), and the quantification of ground motion amplifications became important for seismic hazard mitigation programs making site effect estimation studies, which is a common practice in engineering seismology. These site effects can be estimated by several methods based on strong motion earthquake recordings (Heng et al., 2011; Kagawa et al., 2017), passive ambient noise microtremor measurements (Karagoz et al., 2015; Yamanaka et al., 1993; Zaineh et al., 2012) or numerical simulations, and theoretical experimental methods (Amrouche et al., 2014; Chaillat et al., 2009; Tsai et al., 2017).…”