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hypocentral

hypocentral adjective: of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.

Adjective

hypocentral (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
    • It moved through the hypocentral region of the most recent magnitude 6 Parkfield earthquakes, triggering a succession of increasingly energetic episodes of slip-induced seismicity, and culminated with near complete relaxation in that region.1999 July 30, Robert M. Nadeau, Thomas V. McEvilly, “Fault Slip Rates at Depth from Recurrence Intervals of Repeating Microearthquakes”, in Science, volume 285, number 5428, →DOI, pages 718–721

Questions about hypocentral

What does hypocentral mean?
Hypocentral means of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
What part of speech is hypocentral?
Hypocentral is an adjective.

Words near hypocentral in the dictionary

  1. hypocausts
  2. hypocellular
  3. hypocellularity
  4. hypocenter
  5. hypocenters
  6. hypocentral
  7. hypocentre
  8. hypocentres
  9. hypocercal
  10. hypocerebral
  11. hypochiasmatic

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