This empirical rule is one way how to approximate the distance from an earthquake's epicenter. The rule is most fitting for distance in the range of 2 − 10 Mm (thousand km). The epicentral distance in thousands of km is roughly equal to the difference between arrival times of S and P waves in minutes minus 1.
The error of Láska's empirical rule
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václav, láska, mathematician, václav, láska, 1862, 1943, czech, astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, based, mainly, charles, university, founding, director, 1920, 1933, state, institute, geophysics, which, later, became, institute, geophysics, czech, acade. Vaclav Laska 1862 1943 was a Czech astronomer geophysicist and mathematician He was based mainly at Charles University and was the founding director 1920 1933 of the State Institute of Geophysics which later became the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Vaclav LaskaLaska s empirical rule editThis empirical rule is one way how to approximate the distance from an earthquake s epicenter The rule is most fitting for distance in the range of 2 10 Mm thousand km The epicentral distance in thousands of km is roughly equal to the difference between arrival times of S and P waves in minutes minus 1 nbsp The error of Laska s empirical ruleExternal links editCharles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Department of Geophysics in Czech MacTutor Entry in Czech nbsp nbsp nbsp This biographical article about a Czech academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vaclav Laska mathematician amp oldid 1160488423, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
