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Acquiring Real Time Data from the Broadband Ocean Bottom Seismic Observatory at Monterey Bay (MOBB)

SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2009)

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SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 197-202

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SEISMOLOGICAL SOC AMER

DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.80.2.197

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National Science Foundation [OCE-9911392, 0648302]
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Division Of Ocean Sciences [1114794] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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