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jessicacav

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How are faults, hypocenters, and epicenters related?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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When occurring in the Atlantic Ocean they are known as hurricanes. What are they known as when occurring in the western Pacific?
 
  A) cyclones B) tropical breezes C) typhoons D) tsunamis


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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A fault is the slip plane along which the movement of an earthquake occurs. The hypocenter is the trigger point on the fault at which the slippage occurred. The epicenter is the surface projection of the hypocenterthe earthquake location that would be determined by triangulation.

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:D TYSM

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Gracias!

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