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Tectonic Summaries for Web-served Earthquake Responses, Southeastern North America

By Russell L. Wheeler

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-343

Version 1.1
This report documents the rationale and strategy used to write short summaries of the seismicity and tectonic settings of domains in southeastern North America. The summaries are used in automated Web responses to notable earthquakes that occur anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States or Canada.

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