Preliminary results from the New Jamaica seismograph network

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 525-537

  Wiggins Grandison, Margaret D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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EID: 0010982919     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.72.5.525     Document Type: Article

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