during an earthquake, why is there an epicenter? Shouldn’t the force be distributed evenly along the fault line?

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during an earthquake, why is there an epicenter? Shouldn’t the force be distributed evenly along the fault line?

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Answer 1

If you think about it as ripping apart two pieces of Velcro, the strands give individually until one final piece remains stopping the pieces from moving until that piece gives, that strand is the epicentre.