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This paper describes a method of computer determination of a source equivalent to a seismic focus. The initial observations are the signs of the first arrivals of various body waves.
Translated from Vychislitel’naya Seismologiya, No. 5, Moscow, Nauka (1971), pp. 3–27.
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Keilis-Borok, V.I., Pisarenko, V.F., Pyatetskii-Shapiro, I.I., Zhelankina, T.S. (1972). Computer Determination of Earthquake Mechanism. In: Keilis-Borok, V.I., Flinn, E.A. (eds) Computational Seismology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8815-9_5
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