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Joint Epicentre Determination

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THIS communication describes a method of determining station travel time corrections and the positions and origin times of more than one earthquake simultaneously. Application of the method to earthquakes from the same region should reveal any regional bias in travel times. Some preliminary results are presented.

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DOUGLAS, A. Joint Epicentre Determination. Nature 215, 47–48 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215047a0

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