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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Mian Liu

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Liu, M. (2019). Earthquake, Foreshocks. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_203-1

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