Václav Láska
Václav Láska (1862–1943) was a renowned Czech astronomer, geophysicist, and mathematician. He conducted most of his work at Charles University.
Láska's empirical rule[]
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.
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