Meaning of epicentros by Jimeno Álvarez

plural epicentroEl 40 epicenter epicenters; from Gr. a¯, epi, «envelope, in» and ½, kentron, "Center" 41 ­½aa;? It is the point on the surface of the Earth which is located on the vertical projection of the hypocenter or focus, the point on the inside of the Earth which originates an epicenter terremoto.1El is usually the place, space, territory, surface, with most damage and these seismic waves reach the subsurface and land outside. However, in the case of major earthquakes, the length of the fault rupture may be very large, so much damage can be located not in the epicenter, but in any other point of the rupture zone. For example, in the 2002 Denali earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 7.9 degrees, the epicenter was located in the western end of the rupture zone, but the greatest damage occurred about 330 km from the East end of the rupture zone.