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Earthquakes and Explosions: Comment on Molnar et al.

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IT is incorrect of Molnar et al.1 to say that the shape of the surface wave spectra for discriminating between earthquakes and explosions had been hypothesized but not tested.

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THIRLAWAY, H. Earthquakes and Explosions: Comment on Molnar et al.. Nature 225, 1237–1238 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251237a0

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