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The document outlines an activity to locate an earthquake's epicenter using the triangulation method. It provides a step-by-step procedure for collecting data from seismic stations, calculating distances, and drawing circles on a map to find the epicenter. The activity includes specific seismic station data for practical application.

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Activity-1-Find-the-Epicenter

The document outlines an activity to locate an earthquake's epicenter using the triangulation method. It provides a step-by-step procedure for collecting data from seismic stations, calculating distances, and drawing circles on a map to find the epicenter. The activity includes specific seismic station data for practical application.

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Name:______________________________________ Date:______________

Year and Section:____________________________ Score:_____________

Activity 1: The Triangulation Method

Objective: To locate the earthquake epicenter using the triangulation method.

Materials: map drawing compass ruler pencil

Procedure:
1. Obtain data from three seismic stations.
2. Find the difference in the arrival time of P and S waves.
3. Find the distance of the epicenter from each station in kilometers then convert it to cm
based on the scale of the map. For example, the map has a scale where one centimeter
is equal to 100 kilometers. If the epicenter of the earthquake is 200 km away, that is equal
to 2 cm on the map.
4. Using your compass, draw a circle with a radius equal to the number you came up with
in step no.4 (the radius is the distance from the center of a circle to its edge). The center
of the circle will be the location of your seismograph. The epicenter of the earthquake is
somewhere on the edge of that circle.
5. Do the same thing for the distance to the epicenter that the other seismograms recorded
(with the location of those seismographs at the center of their circles). All of the circles
should overlap. The point where all of the circles overlap is the approximate epicenter of
the earthquake.
6. Apply the above steps in the following data gathered from three seismic stations using
Figure 6.

Distance
from the
Difference in
Distance epicenter (in
P and S
Seismic Arrival time Arrival time from the cm)
waves arrival
station of P wave of S wave epicenter (in
time (in
km)
minutes)

A 7:15 7:25

B 7:18 7:38

C 7:19 7:25

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