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KOLAR AND PRUVOST1 have suggested that explosives could be detonated to provide all the characteristics of earthquakes when they are recorded by distant seismographs. Should this experiment be confirmed the effect on efforts to solve the seismological problems which at the moment preclude satisfactory agreement on an underground nuclear test ban would be profound; we present here the results of a relevant experiment.
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MARSHALL, P., HURLEY, R. Recognising simulated earthquakes. Nature 259, 378–380 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259378a0
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