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EARTH G. Tancredi, J. Ishitsuka, P. Schultz, R. S. Harris, P. Brown, D. Revelle, K. Antier, A. Le Pichon, D. Rosales, E. Vidal, D. Pavel, A. Dalmau, S. Benavente, P. Miranda, G. Pereira, M. E. Varela, L. Sanchez 1 Dpto. Astronomia, Fac. Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, gonzalo@fisica.edu.uy, 2 Inst. Geofisico del Peru 3 Dept. Geological Sciences, Brown University, USA, 4 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 5 EES-2, Atmospheric, Climate and Environmental Dynamics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 6 Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Centre DAM, France, 7 Univ. Nacional del Altiplano, Peru, 8 Planetario Max Schreier, Univ. Mayor de San Andres, Bolivia, 9 CASLEO, Argentina, 10 Inst. Ciencias Geologicas, Uruguay