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IN August 1962 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority put into operation a Geneva-type seismic station at Eskdalemuir. Full details of the station design and operation are given by Truscott1; but briefly it consists of two mutually perpendicular lines of seismometers, each line being just under 9 km long, and containing 11 equi-spaced short-period seismometers.
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Truscott, J. R., The Eskdalemuir Seismological Station, (to be published).
Thirlaway, H. I. S., New Sci., 18, 338, 311 (1963).
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KEY, F., MARSHALL, P. & MCDOWALL, A. Two Recent British Earthquakes recorded at the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority Seismometer Array at Eskdalemuir. Nature 201, 484–485 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201484a0
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