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- A hypocenter or hypocentre (from Ancient Gr**** ὑπόκεντρον (hupókentron) 'below the center'), also called ground zero or surface zero, is the point on the...
- king shrine), located about 800 metres south-east of the atomic bomb hypocentre in Nagasaki, is noted for its one-legged stone torii at the shrine entrance...
- (UTC+11) an earthquake with magnitude 8.1 on the Mw scale occurred at hypocentre S8.453 E156.957, 349 kilometres (217 mi) northwest of the island's capital...
- newspaper Chugoku Shimbun. Matsushige was at home 2.7 km south of the hypocentre at the time of the explosion. He was not seriously injured, and determined...
- Point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocentre or focus in an earthquake...
- The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, ****an, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocentre....
- peak ground velocity. Earthquake energy is dis****d in waves from the hypocentre, causing ground movement omnidirectionally but typically modelled horizontally...
- estimates that Mw 9.2 is representative of the earthquake's size. The hypocentre of the main earthquake was approximately 160 km (100 mi) off the western...
- and was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United Kingdom. Its hypocentre was 23 kilometres (14 mi) beneath the bank, and the quake was felt in...
- returned into solar orbit. The explosion's effect on the trees near the hypocentre of the explosion was similar to the effects of the conventional Operation...