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Given information

Given values:

min is the time difference between the two waves.
 
km/s is the speed of P waves.
 
km/s is the speed of S waves.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

An earthquake is a natural occurrence that causes the earth's surface to shake. The release of the crust's energy to the outer rocky layer causes an earthquake. The point over the earth where the earthquake starts to originate is known as the epicenter.

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