Define and distinguish between the following: epicenter, focus, aftershock

What will be an ideal response?


The subsurface area where the motion of seismic waves is initiated along a fault plane is the focus (or hypocenter). The area at the surface directly above the focus is the epicenter. An aftershock occurs after the main shock, sharing the same general area of the epicenter.

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