So, before you start poking fun at assonance for its name, why not learn what it actually means? Assonance occurs in a sentence when two or more words near each other have the same vowel sounds but start with different consonants. You can think of assonance as alliterationâs rebellious and less popular sibling. Instead of happening when words begin with the same letter or sound like with alliteration, assonance has to get complicated and happen in the middle of the words. You probably use assonance all the time when writing your poetry without even realizing it.
The place on the surface of Earth directly above where the earthquake. started is known as the epicenter of the earthquake. Scientists can locate the epicenter of an earth-. quake by finding the distance between the epicenter and at least three seismometers that recorded. the event.
News stories about earthquakes. Most news stories on earthquakes will list the epicenter of an earthquake and then tell how deep the earthquake was from the epicenter. Great earthquakes that occur in subduction zones may give an earthquake focus but they actually break along hundreds of kilometers. The 1960 Chilean earthquake broke along 800 kilometers of the fault line. Richter scale used for shallow-focus earthquakes. Shallow-focus earthquakes occur between 0 and 40 miles deep.