EARTHQUAKE LAB The goal of this lab is to loam how recording of oarthquakos are

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EARTHQUAKE LAB The goal of this lab is to loam how recording of oarthquakos are usod to locate earthquakes determine their magnitudes. LOCATE THE EPICENTER and enter the 1. Determine the S-P interval from the 3 soismograms shown on the following results in the table below. The time is shown in seconds. Then, use the S-P travel time curve (below 2. Next, take a compass and set its radius to the epicentral distance for each station and draw arcs around each station. Ideally, the three arcs should intersect at a if they do not, you should go back and check your work. Clearly mark the location of the epicenter to determine the distance between the station and the opicenter and enter the data into the table. e point, which is the epicenter_ 3. Is there a known fault in the vicinity of the epicenter that is likely to have slipped to create the earthquake? If so, name the fault. StationS-P (sec) Distance Elko Eureka (km) 60 Las Vegas O REG ON Mamath " Falls 300 400 500 600 700 Distance (kilometers) Boise IDARo Ogden Salt Lake. City Reno Sacramento San Provo NEVAD A Toropah UTAH Fresno Las . You may get a small triangle that represents that epicenter instead of single point. Bakerstelde ARIZONA Los Angeles .Your epicenter shou san Bernard be in the map, if it is not go back and check your work. 50 100 200 Phoenix n D ego Baja Yuma efers

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first of all we have to understand the concept of what is epicenter and how it is realetd to the question which you have asked here. so lets start with the epicenter.

it can be defined as in seismology it is the point on the earth surface directly above the earth hypocenter or the focus point where the where the phenomenon of earth quake or the explosion takes place.

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