hypocentral

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Adjective

hypocentral (not comparable)

  1. (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
    • 1999 July 30, Robert M. Nadeau, Thomas V. McEvilly, “Fault Slip Rates at Depth from Recurrence Intervals of Repeating Microearthquakes”, in Science‎, volume 285, number 5428, →DOI, pages 718–721:
      It moved through the hypocentral region of the most recent magnitude 6 Parkfield earthquakes, triggering a succession of increasingly energetic episodes of slip-induced seismicity, and culminated with near complete relaxation in that region.

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