Abstract
Since late 1950’s, many seismological institutes around the world have been in the centre of public interest as never before. This is connected with the seismological possibilities of detecting nuclear explosions and the considerable interest in such events from the political and military points of view. Even though it has been of satisfaction to seismologists to be able to give significant information on such explosions on the basis of our records, still it has to be emphasized that this constitutes only a minor part of our work. Compared to a daily average of 10–15 recorded events, for instance, over the Swedish network, it is obvious that the number of nuclear explosion records is only a small fraction.
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Båth, M. (1979). Nuclear Tests and Other Explosions. In: Introduction to Seismology. Wissenschaft und Kultur, vol 27. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5283-8_11
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