From: David Lauter (djlauter@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 01 2005 - 11:16:21 PST
Message-ID: <BAY13-F3605BA2BB2C33525E2277CDA9E0@phx.gbl> From: "David Lauter" <djlauter@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Epicenter Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:16:21 -0800
I always thought of the epicenter as the place from which the shock waves are radiating, so I thought that even during large earthquakes the length of a rupture couldn't be very much. From your comments I guess the epicenter is the ppoint above where the first rupture happens but the if the plates were ruptured along a stretch of 1500 km, wouldn't the source of the shock waves also be 1500 km? Does anyone have information on the length of ruptures for other quakes?
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