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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to both anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions, which helped us to improve the paper substantially. Most of the work was accomplished within the Grant Project P210–12–2336 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic “Earthquake swarms and their triggering mechanisms and driving forces in diverse tectonic environments (Bohemian Massif, Mid-Atlantic ridge, French Alps).”

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  1. Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Boční II, 1401, Praha 4, 141 31, Prague, Czech Republic

    Josef Horálek

  2. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 43, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Fischer

  3. Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Öskju, Sturlugötu 7, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Páll Einarsson

  4. Faculty of Earth Science, University of Iceland, Öskju, Sturlugötu 7, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Steinunn S. Jakobsdótir

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Horálek, J., Fischer, T., Einarsson, P., Jakobsdótir, S.S. (2015). Earthquake Swarms. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_294

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