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Concept of Apparent Stress Index

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In this chapter, I describe the idea behind the apparent stress concept . It was developed in order to cope with increasing amounts of recorded seismicity.

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Glazer, S.N. (2018). Concept of Apparent Stress Index. In: Mine Seismology: Seismic Warning Concept. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62353-5_3

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