hypocenter
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After news of the attack, Satoshi’s mother rushed to Hiroshima to search for her family, who lived half a mile from the hypocenter, where the A-bomb exploded.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
“We’re expecting to show what a hypocenter looks like.”
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2017
The earthquake focus or hypocenter is the point along the fault plane from which initial seismic waves spread outward and is always at some depth below the ground surface.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
On Aug. 6, 1945, Komatsu was about one mile from the hypocenter.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2016
Taki crossed the remnants of the old stone bridge, which was to be the hypocenter of the blast if the Enola Gay hadn't missed its target by 800 feet.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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