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Earthquake location is one of the most important tasks in practical seismology and most seismologists have been involved in this task from time to time. The intention with this chapter is to describe the most common methods without going into too much mathematical details, which has been described in numerous text books, and to give some practical advice on earthquake location.
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Havskov, J., Ottemöller, L. (2010). Location. In: Routine Data Processing in Earthquake Seismology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8697-6_5
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