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The focus is the point underground where the earthquake originates.
The epicentre is the point on the surface directly above the focus, where earthquake waves seem to spread out from.
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What do you call the point of the earths surface directly above where an earthquake originates?
The epicenter
What is also known as the 'focus' - the place underground where an earthquake originates?
The Underground center of an earthquake is called the focus.
What is the point beneath earths surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called the?
The point beneath the earth's surface where an earthquake originates is called the hypocenter.
What are the names of the two tectonic plates that caused the Japanese earthquake in 2011?
The Okhotsk Plate (which underlies northern Honshu) and the Pacific Plate were responsible for the large Japanese earthquake in 2011.
What are the names of the tectonic plates involved in Japan's 2011 earthquake?
There were two tectonic plates involved: the Pacific plate and the plate under Northern Honshu (it is unknown which plate is under the island).
How a earthquake originates?
from the sea
Where the earthquake originates is called a?
pothole
What do we call the point beneath earths surface where the earthquake originates?
The point beneath the earth's surface where an earthquake originates is called the hypocenter.
What is the earthquake which follows a bigger earthquake and originates at or near the focus?
Aftershock
What is a seiche?
Seiche is an earthquake originates in the lake.
Term for the point on Earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake originates?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake originates is known as an epicenter.
The energy of an earthquake called seismic waves originates from a point called the?
the energy of an earthquake, called seismic waves,originates from a point called the ? epicenter
Which term describes the point on the earth's surface above the area where an earthquake originates?
The term that describes the point on the Earth's surface above the area where an earthquake originates is it's epicenter.
Which term describes the point on the earth's surface above the area where an earthquake originates?
The term that describes the point on the Earth's surface above the area where an earthquake originates is it's epicenter.
What happens if their was an earthquake?
AN EARTHquake first reaches a place that is focus strong earthquakes are in the epicentre but this is not the place from where earthquake originates i.e focus
What do you call the point at which an earthquake originates?
It's called the Epicenter.
The place under the ground where the earthquake originates?
That is a fault line.
