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GWD-24-Q36 地震

Q36It can be inferred from the passage that if the S waves from an earthquake arrive at a given location long after the P waves, which of the following must be true?




AC




A.The earthquake was a deep event.




B.The earthquake was a shallow event.




C.The earthquake focus was distant.




D.The earthquake focus was nearby.




The earthquake had a low peak intensity

正确答案是C    他和A有啥区别啊这是?

附上原文,ORZ牛牛

GWD-24-Q30 ~ 37








In most earthquakes the Earth’s crust cracks like porcelain, Stress builds up until a fracture forms at a depth of a few kilometers and the crust (5) slips to relieve the stress. Some earthquakes, however, take place hundreds of kilometers down in the Earth’s mantle, where high pressure makes rock so ductile that it flows instead of (10) cracking, even under stress severe enough to deform it like putty. How can there be earthquakes at such depths? That such deep events do occur has been accepted only since 1927 when the seismologist Kiyoo Wadati convincingly demonstrated their existence. Instead of comparing the arrival times of seismic waves at different locations, as earlier researchers had done, Wadati relied on a time difference between the arrival of primary(P) waves and the slower secondary(S)waves. Because P and S waves travel at different but fairly constant speeds, the interval between their arrivals increases in proportion to the distance from the earthquake focus, or initial rupture point.




For most earthquakes, Wadati discovered, the interval was quite short near the epicenter; the point on the surface where shaking is strongest. For a few events, however, the delay was long even at the epicenter. Wadati saw a similar pattern when he analyzed data on the intensity of shaking. Most earthquakes had a small area of intense shaking, which weakened rapidly with increasing distance from the epicenter, but others were characterized by a lower peak intensity, felt over a broader area. Both the P-S intervals and the intensity patterns suggested two kinds of earthquakes: the more common shallow events, in which the focus lay just under the epicenter, and deep events, with a focus several hundred kilometers down.




The question remained: how can such quakes occur, given that mantle rock at a depth of more than 50 kilometers is too ductile to store enough stress to fracture? Wadati’s work suggested that deep events occur in areas (now called Wadati-Benioff zones) where one crustal plate is forced under another and descends into the mantle. The descending rock is substantially cooler than the surrounding mantle and hence is less ductile and much more liable to fracture.
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顶下,我也搜不到。interval长说明震源点深,也就是deep event, which has a distant foucus, and therefore has a broad range of low peak intensity.我觉得ACE都是deep event的特点

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貌似原文中定位的是这一句话:Because P and S waves travel at different but fairly constant speeds, the interval between their arrivals increases in proportion to the distance from the earthquake focus, or initial rupture point.

时间间隔interval随着离震源的distance增加而增加——就是成正比的关系。

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关于A,从第二段可知,震中离震源远的,是deep events.
本题说的是一个given location离震源远,不是震中与震源远,所以不能确定是deep events.
A 和C不一样。

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