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A PROMINENT phase appearing a few minutes after ScS on the seismograms at the Dominion Observatory, Wellington, of seven deep-focus earthquakes in the south-west Pacific, has been identified as a transverse wave reaching the station after having been reflected, first at the earth's surface near the epicentre, and then at the boundary of the core.
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HAYES, R. A New Wave Characteristic of Deep-focus Earthquakes. Nature 136, 337–338 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136337b0
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