Focus

A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or from which they appear to diverge, as after refraction or reflection in an optical system: the focus of a lens. Also called focal point. Epicenter The epicenter or epicentre /psntr/ is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus, the point where anearthquake or underground explosion originates. The word [1] derives from the New Latin noun epicentrum, the latinisation of the ancient Greekadjective [2] [3] (epikentros), "occupying a cardinal point, situated on a centre", from (epi) "on, upon, at" and [4] (kentron) "centre".
The epicenter is directly above theearthquake's focus (hypocenter).

In the case of earthquakes, the epicenter is directly above the point where the fault begins to rupture, and in most cases, it is the area of greatest damage. However, in larger events, the length of the fault rupture is much longer, and damage can be spread across the rupture zone. For example, in the magnitude 7.9, 2002 Denali earthquake in Alaska, the epicenter was at the western end of the rupture, but the [5] greatest damage occurred about 330 km away at the eastern end of the rupture zone. intensity In physics, intensity is the power transferred per unit area. In the SI system, it has units watts per metre 2 squared (W/m ). It is used most frequently with waves (e.g. sound or light), in which case the average power transfer over one period of the wave is used. Intensity can be applied to other circumstances where energy is transferred. For example, one could calculate the intensity of the kinetic energy carried by drops of water from a garden sprinkler. The word "intensity" as used here is not synonymous with "strength", "amplitude", "magnitude", or "level", as it sometimes is in colloquial speech. Intensity can be found by taking the energy density (energy per unit volume) at a point in space and multiplying it by the velocity at which the energy is moving. The resulting vector has the units of power divided by area. Magnitude Magnitude is the total size of an effect. Scalar measurements, such as speed, are statistics that are measured by magnitude. This is in contrast to vector measurements, such as velocity, which are concerned with direction on top of magnitude. An object may have a speed of 10 meters per second but a velocity that is lower.