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How many seismic stations are needed to determine the exact epicentre location of an earthquake and explain how you would do this?


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Standard Normal Variable

A random variable that follows a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.

Z-score

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its distribution.

Standard Normal Curve

A specific instance of a normally distributed curve where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

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