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Characteristics used for discrimination between earthquakes and explosions are mostly related to the spectral content of seismic events. Difference in size of sources (with mb=6 the size of an explosion source is of the order of 1 km and the size of a tectonic earthquake is about 10 km) and in duration of the process of rupture (0.5 and 5 s respectively) make altogether the seismic radiation of earthquakes richer in low frequencies in comparison with the explosions of similar magnitude measured on mb scale (Dahlman and Israelson, 1977).
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Kaverina, A., Prozorov, A. (1995). On Ms:mb Statistics for Earthquakes and Explosions and their Relation to Some Source Parameters. In: Console, R., Nikolaev, A. (eds) Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions. NATO ASI Series, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57764-2_23
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