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Regional Seismic Event Discrimination

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSE,volume 303))

Abstract

Since the publication of the most recent reviews of regional discrimination (Bland-ford, 1980, 1985; Pomeroy et al., 1982), there has been substantial progress in the field.

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