beach ball plot
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Focal_mechanism.svg/220px-Focal_mechanism.svg.png)
Etymology
[edit]From the resemblance to a striped sphere.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
[edit]beach ball plot (plural beach ball plots)
- A kind of diagram illustrating the focal mechanism of an earthquake.
- Synonym: beach ball diagram