Karen Fischer and Steve Roecker kindly provided data from their portable networks prior to its public release. We used GMT software [Wessel and Smith, 1991] to prepare figures. This work has been supported by NSF grant EAR-9707189. Array operation by VL and WM in 1995 was supported in part by the grant from SigmaXi Grants-in-Aid program.
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