GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A travel-time graph can be used to find the distance from an area experiencing an earthquake to the epicenter of the earthquake. The epicenter is the location where the actual earthquake occurred. The travel-time graph relates the speeds with which the various earthquake waves move.

Detailed explanation-2: -A travel time curve is a graph of the time that it takes for seismic waves to travel from the epicenter of an earthquake to seismograph stations at varying distances away. The velocity of seismic waves through different materials yield information about Earth’s deep interior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Finding the Distance to the Epicenter Use the time difference between the arrival of the P and S waves to estimate the distance from the earthquake to the station. (From Bolt, 1978.) Measure the distance between the first P wave and the first S wave. In this case, the first P and S waves are 24 seconds apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -What Is a Distance-Time Graph? A distance-time graph shows how far an object has travelled in a given time. It is a simple line graph that denotes distance versus time findings on the graph. Distance is plotted on the Y-axis. Time is plotted on the X-axis.

Detailed explanation-5: -The earthquakes originate in tectonic plate boundary. The focus is point inside the earth where the earthquake started, sometimes called the hypocenter, and the point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus is called the epicenter.