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The purpose of this paper is to report the observation of anomalously long wavetrains of high-frequency seismic energy (0.3–1 Hz) following shallow events at a number of epicenters in the South-central Pacific basin, and to model their propagation and generation as due to efficient coupling of the oceanic water column with the solid Earth through a well-developed transitional layer of sediments. The following paragraphs are a short summary of the seismic features of the area, and provide a framework for our study.
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Okal, E.A., Talandier, J. (1980). Dispersion of One-Second Rayleigh Modes through Oceanic Sediments Following Shallow Earthquakes in the South-Central Pacific Ocean Basin. In: Kuperman, W.A., Jensen, F.B. (eds) Bottom-Interacting Ocean Acoustics. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9051-0_23
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