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  • 14-01-2019
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why is a minimum of three seismic stations needed to find the epicenter of an earthquake?

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  • 14-01-2019

Each station can detect how far away the epicenter was. So each station basically has a circle made of possible epicenters. When you have three, you narrow it down to one, final point.

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