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Q

The term `Q' is defined in different and inconsistent ways. (See the discussion in Aki and Richards [50].) We take,

These results are summarized in Table 1.

 
Table: Approximate conversion factors between attenuation units.



Michael B. Porter
Tue Oct 28 13:27:38 PST 1997