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Seismicity Induced by Mining: An Overview

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It seems that seismicity in mines has become recently a major topic in monitoring and discrimination research of seismic events with respect to a CTBT. An evasion scenario for clandestine testing of small nuclear weapons in the areas of induced seismicity cannot be dismissed. Thus seismic events generated in mines form a separate set of the events of interest, apart from earthquakes and explosions.

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    S. J. Gibowicz

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Gibowicz, S.J. (1996). Seismicity Induced by Mining: An Overview. In: Husebye, E.S., Dainty, A.M. (eds) Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. NATO ASI Series, vol 303. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0419-7_22

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