According to the US Geological Survey, the
hypocentre of the earthquake was situated some 24km deep and 4km south east of Sembalun Bumbung village.
Located close to the
hypocentre, Nagasaki Medical College was totally destroyed.
Its
hypocentre was reported by the Seismological Bureau, under the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) as latitude 19.748[degrees]N, longitude 99.687[degrees]E, and 7 km depth.
At Kerry's suggestion, the ministers also made an impromptu visit to the Atomic Bomb Dome, the skeletal remains of the only structure left standing near the
hypocentre of the bomb explosion and now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
He further notes that "theoretical work suggests that faulting is a non-linear process which is highly sensitive to unmeasurably fine details of the state of the Earth in a large volume, not just in the immediate vicinity of the
hypocentre" [2].
The black-and-white picture is believed to have been taken about half-an-hour after the bombing on August 6, 1945, around 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the
hypocentre. "The existence of this shot was always known in history books, but this is the first time that the actual print has been discovered," said a curator at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum."A shot showing the mushroom cloud split into two like this is very rare." The photo was found among articles related to the atomic bombing now owned by Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima city, she said.
Locally, a zone of low resistivity is observed surrounding the
hypocentre region of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
It took the waves about 20 minutes to travel from the earthquake's
hypocentre below Haiti, arriving in Bristol just after 10pm on Tuesday.
Among them was Hiroshi Sawachika, who was 28 when the bomb was dropped demolishing 60,000 buildings within a three-mile radius.The army doctor - who was almost three miles from the
hypocentre, the point directly beneath the detonation, which occurred at 1,900ft - recalled the mushroom cloud which hung over the city and the approach of a 'strange noise' resembling a large flock of mosquitoes.
The army doctor, who was almost three miles from the
hypocentre, the point directly beneath the detonation, recalled the mushroom cloud which hung over the city and the approach of a "strange noise" resembling mosquitoes.