An earthquake epicenter is the ____

a. point where the seismograph is located
b. point in the subsurface where movement along the fault occurs
c. geographic center of a group of related earthquakes
d. point on the surface directly above where a fault rupture occurs
e. the strongest in a series of earthquake aftershocks


d

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