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Teleseism

A teleseism is the tremor caused by an earthquake that is very far away, often only picked up byseismometers that are in low background noise locations. Generally tremor from a magnitude 5.3 can be seen anywhere in the world with modern seismic instruments.

Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55