The epicenter is the surface located right above the focus, which is the center of an earthquake.
The names come where the epicenter is located.
The epicenter.
Anywhere where the earths plates meet. Earthquakes occur only were there is an epicenter. Were ever the epicenter is the earthquake will happen.
Geologists use circles to find the epicenter of an earthquake.
Epicenter
An earthquakes epicenter is the point on the surface directly above the focus
at the epicenter
It is the Epicenter
Because earthquakes rupture sections of a fault, sometimes for hundreds of miles. So it is possible for there to be just as much destruction anywhere along the fault as there is at the epicenter. (the epicenter being at the beginning of the rupture)
it is a target for earthquakes because it is on a fault line and the epicenter is right above that
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The "epicenter"