Crossword-Solution: EPIFOCAL
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| Over an earthquake's center | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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Sentences with EPIFOCAL (4)
That part of the surface of the earth which is vertically above the centre is called the _epicentre_; or, if of considerable area, the epicentral or epifocal tract.
Although the tract chiefly affected was around Kangra and Dharmsala, there was a subordinate epifocal tract in Dehra Dun and the neighbourhood of Mussoorie, whilst the effects of the earthquake extended in slight measure to Lahore and other cities of the plain.
Further, in a great earthquake the surface of the ground is sometimes visibly agitated in the epifocal district by undulations which may be responsible for severe superficial damage.
When this material is volcanic it is almost invariably magnetic, and we perceive in its sudden rearrangement causes which should produce magnetic effects within an epifocal district.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).