Directions: Figure 3 illustrates seismograms from the same earthquake recorded at Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, M0 and Houston, TX. Use this information to answer the following questions. Use the travel-time graph, Figure 2, to determine the distance that each station in Figure 3 is from the epicenter. Write your answers in the epicenter data table, Table 1. 1.

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