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Definition of Hypocenters
1. hypocenter [n] - See also: hypocenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypocenters
Literary usage of Hypocenters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Disasters in the Philippines: July ‘90 Earthquake & June ‘91 by Giovanni Rantucci (1995)
"The upward migration of hypocenters four days after the July 16, 1990 events is
shown in Table 7.2, which covers the aftershock period July 16 - October 19, ..."
2. The Seismic Risk in the San Diego Region: Special Focus on the Rose Canyon edited by Glenn Roquemore (1997)
"Well-constrained hypocenters and focal mechanisms for earthquakes in the San
Diego Bay area should help define the subsurface fault dips and slip vectors. ..."
3. Proceedings of Conference LXII, 8th Joint Meeting of the U. S. Japan by R. L. Wesson (1995)
"However, by combining well-contrained hypocenters and focal mechanisms in the
... hypocenters of recent, well-recorded earthquakes, when relocated with a ..."
4. Directory of Northridge Earthquake Research edited by Brian Cowan, Michael Mahoney, Stephen A. Mahin (2000)
"•If so, can the image be correlated with the distribution of aftershock
hypocenters (eg, the bottom of the dipping pattern of hypocenters and its ..."
5. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1916)
"... that is, with distinct foci or hypocenters at great depths and at some distance
from the coast. In spite of the great violence of the shock equilibrium ..."
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