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be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate by-line/photo/image
credit is requested. It is strongly
recommend that ASC website data be acquired
directly from an ASC
website server and not through
other sources that may change the data in some way.
The ASC website welcomes suggestions on how to improve
our webpages and
to correct errors. The ASC
website provides no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy,
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for published work or to the ASC for information published on this
website as shown below in "1"
& "2". For usage of material on
this website by the media please see "3".
1) For data retrieved from the ASC web site (all
data):
'Amateur Seismic Centre, http://www.asc-india.org/,
Pune, India (last accessed)'.
2) For data retrieved
from the ASC-N Mailing list service (event
bulletins):
'Amateur Seismic Centre, ASC-N,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asc-n,
Pune, India (last accessed.
3)
Print & electronic media only! In this instance, a link must be
provided alongside the information that has been reproduced from
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future.
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Online Surveys (Web-forms)
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online survey such as the 'Felt
a Quake?' section, it
is used to perform various quantitative
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its removal at any time. Information collected via online surveys
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order, for example, to review public interest in a particular
page or section on this website.
Map
Products
All the maps on this website that bear the "www.asc-india.org"
link embedded in them have been created by the ASC using the Generic Mapping Tool software [Ref: Wessel, P., and Smith, W.H.F., Free software helps map and display
data, EOS, 72, 1991].
These are only intended to
provide a graphical example for accompanying textual material.
Google Maps are used to display maps in certain section on this
website.
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these maps by Google Maps. The ASC has no control over the external boundaries displayed in
these Google maps that do not conform to the
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they are displayed on this website via Google Maps, is only for informational &
display purposes and should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement
of these boundaries by the ASC.
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