Locating the Epicentre: Three Stations & a Grid Search
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In this lesson
You turn three stations' S−P intervals into distances, test 20 candidate epicentres on a grid by their distance misfit, and let INDEX and MATCH pick the best one.
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Lessons in this course
- Moment Magnitude: From Fault Size and Slip to Mw Locked
- Magnitude & Energy: Why +1 Means 32 Times More Locked
- P and S Waves: Travel Times & Distance from the S−P Interval Locked
- Locating the Epicentre: Three Stations & a Grid Search Locked
- Gutenberg–Richter: Fitting log N = a − bM with SLOPE Locked
- Recurrence Intervals & the Chance of at Least One Event Locked
- Aftershock Decay: Omori's Law Locked
- Shaking Intensity vs Distance (Illustrative Attenuation) Locked