To: capitan_refugio
The "shallow" hypocentral focus has been revosed to nearly 8km.
Yep. I wonder how they missed by so much. A 6.0 at 7.9km is still capable of doing a lot of damage, but far less than at 1km (different kind of shaking). This is good news :)
To: Arthalion; capitan_refugio
Just spoke to relatives near the epicenter, and they said it was more of a rolling earthquake rather than a sharp, violent one like the December San Simeon Quake.
474 posted on
09/28/2004 2:53:07 PM PDT by
Orion78
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To: Arthalion
The initial figures are probably generated by instruments near the epicenter. If you are right on top of the epicenter, there is no telling how deep the hypocenter really is.
The best hypocentral data are developed form observing several sets of data.
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