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Definition of Epicenters
1. epicenter [n] - See also: epicenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicenters
Literary usage of Epicenters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1914)
"On Plate XXVI of Dut- ton's monograph two epicenters are shown; the Woodstock
epicenter, located near the Southern Railway, fourteen miles N. 30° W. of The ..."
2. On Some Principles of Seismic Geology by William Herbert Hobbs, Eduard Süss, Fernand Montessus de Ballore (1907)
"Distribution of habitual epicenters. The recent appearance of a masterly work by de
... His many maps upon which the habitual epicenters have been located, ..."
3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1913)
"At page 229 of The Journal of the Ro\al Astronomical Society of Canada, under
the head of "Location of epicenters for 1912. ..."
4. Geological Disasters in the Philippines: July ‘90 Earthquake & June ‘91 by Giovanni Rantucci (1995)
"Numerous epicenters clustered around Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. ... Figure 7.2 shows
the progressive formation of clusters of epicenters between July 1990 and ..."
5. Earthquakes: A Teacher's Package for K-6 edited by Phyllis R. Marcuccio (1999)
"Using transparencies and/or student copies of the US Map with epicenters, Master 11,
... People in states without epicenters, as shown on this map, ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1906)
"From these facts it appears that earthquakes have no centrum as this term is
ordinarily understood, but in so far as so-called epicenters are positions of ..."
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