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In the letter "Nuclear test yields" by Jack F. Evernden andLynn R. Sykes (17 Feb., p. 642), the symbol for surface wavemagnitudes was incorrectly given as mb in line 39 of the secondcolumn of page 644. The correct symbol is ms.