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    An earthquake in May 2008 struck Sichuan Province in western China, registering 7.9 on the Richter scale and leaving almost 80,000 dead. The epicenter is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus or hypocenter, which is the point inside the Earth's crust where an earthquake originates.

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    An earthquake in May 2008 struck Sichuan Province in western China, registering 7.9 on the Richter scale and leaving almost 80,000 dead. The epicenter is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus or hypocenter, which is the point inside the Earth's crust where an earthquake originates.

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    An earthquake in May 2008 struck Sichuan Province in western China, registering 7.9 on the Richter scale and leaving almost 80,000 dead. The epicenter is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus or hypocenter, which is the point inside the Earth's crust where an earthquake originates.

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    • Trivia: ­In May 2008, one of the deadliest

    earthquakes in history struck Sichuan


    Province in western China. It registered 7.9
    on the Richter scale, leaving a 185-mile
    (298-kilometer) crack in the Earth’s crust
    and almost 80,000 people dead [source:
    LaFraniere].
    • EPICENTER- is the point on the Earth’s
    surface directly above a hypocenter or
    focus, the point where an earthquake
    originates.
    • FOCUS- The focus is the place inside Earth’s
    crust where an earthquake originates. The
    point on the Earth’s surface directly above
    the focus is the epicenter.

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