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Sinusoidal Disturbances due to Shipping, on Seismograms at Rabaul, New Britain

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UNUSUAL sinusoidal disturbances, which have been a feature of seismograms at Rabaul since continuous recording commenced in 1954, have been definitely linked with movements of shipping in the confined waters of Simpson Harbour (Fig. 1).

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LATTER, J. Sinusoidal Disturbances due to Shipping, on Seismograms at Rabaul, New Britain. Nature 207, 845–847 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207845a0

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