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Distance from Seismic Travel Times Calculator

Estimate the distance to the hypocenter, or focus point, of an earthquake using the difference in time between the arrival of transversal waves (shear waves, also known as S‐waves) and longitudinal seismic waves (compression waves, also known as P‐waves).

time difference between S‐ and P‐waves:
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