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How can scientist locate the epicenter of an earthquake

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-Record of waves from at least 3 seismograms are used to locate earthquakes.

-Difference inn arrival times of P and S waves give distance from seismometer to earthquake

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Scientist use triangulation method to locate the epicentre of an earthquake from the data collected from Seismograph.

Explanation:

The seismic data from three different location is collected to locate the intersect point as the epicentre point to be determined. Each earthquake is recorded in seismogram in different location.

A seismogram is the output from a graph called seismograph, which is used to determine the epicentre of an earthquake. There are two waves namely P-waves or Primary waves and S-waves or secondary waves that are considered while finding the epicentre of an earthquake.

With the seismogram, P-waves appears first before S-waves, since they travel faster through three states of matter. Thus, data from seismograph is used for locating “epicentre of an earthquake”.

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