Assume that the same earthquake occurred, but the seismic station in los angeles malfunctioned, and did not record the earthquak

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Assume that the same earthquake occurred, but the seismic station in los angeles malfunctioned, and did not record the earthquak

e. with only the information from seismic stations in st. louis and houston, brainstorm how a geologist might determine the location of the earthquake epicenter?

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Dafna1 [17] · Answer 1 · 2023-07-08T07:01:17+03:00

Dafna1 [17]2 years ago

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One thing they COULD do is have the St.Louis and Houston Stations both send out very high wave frequencies and figure out from there what the magnitude is and send it back to LA, but that might take a bit of time, depening on if power cables aren't down.