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The data of M≥5 earthquakes occurred in one year before and after 4 deep penetrating bombs in the region within 500 km and 1 000 km from the shooting site are presented. The 4 bombs are those happened in 1999 Kosovo of Yugoslavia, the 1991 Baghdad of Iraq, the 2001 Tora Bora of Afghanistan, and the 2003 Kirkuk of Iraq, respectively. The data indicate that the deep penetrating bombs may have remotely triggered some earthquakes. The deep penetrating bombs in seismically active regions should be forbidden.
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This is the last paper by the author. After the Fifth Meeting of Asian Seismological Commission held in Yervan in 2004 Prefessor Balassanian died from traffic accident. We specially published this paper to express our deep sorrow for his death.
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Balassanian, S.Y. Earthquakes induced by deep penetrating bombing?. Acta Seimol. Sin. 18, 741–745 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-005-0102-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-005-0102-0