Lexicographical Neighbors of Epifocal
Literary usage of Epifocal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology by Clarence Edward Dutton (1904)
"... as to the Causes of these Waves—Lord Rayleigh's Theorem of Surface Waves Not
Applicable—A Fourth Class of Seismic Waves—Confined to the epifocal or ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"They occur only in the epifocal districts of great earthquakes, ... There is
abundant reason for inferring that these epifocal waves . . . have no relation ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1909)
"The experiences of these and other regions show that the destructiveness of an
earthquake is not necessarily greatest in the epifocal area. ..."
4. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1914)
"Some citations of details are included below, but abundant accounts of the actions
of this particular shock, in its epifocal region, have been given by ..."
5. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1916)
"In most instances the intensity given in the catalogs is not estimated for the
shock as a whole, or in its epifocal tract, but rather at the places of ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"Surface undulations exist in epifocal districts, and these by the movement of
water in ponds and lakes, the movements of the bubbles of spirit levels, ..."
7. The California Earthquake of 1906 by Fusakichi Ōmori, John Casper Branner, Charles Derleth, Grove Karl Gilbert, Stephen Taber, Harold Wellman Fairbanks, Mary Hunter Austin (1907)
"Approximate Position of the Center of epifocal Zone. A rough idea as to the
position of the most central or principal point in the zone, which forms the ..."
8. Seismology by John Milne (1908)
"Observations which support a surface undulation hypothesis are the following: (1)
Surface undulations are visible in epifocal districts, and these by the ..."
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