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Anthropogenic Seismicity Related to Exploitation of Georesources

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Lasocki, S., Orlecka-Sikora, B. (2020). Anthropogenic Seismicity Related to Exploitation of Georesources. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_277-1

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