Earthquake hypocenters are identifiable as centers only because seismologists model the full rupture geometry, a representational resource unavailable to naive auditory perception.

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Identifiable as centers(as used in philosophy of science and epistemology): Something we can recognize and point to as a meaningful center only because we have a specific way of studying it; without that method, we couldn't pinpoint it.
Naive auditory perception(as used in epistemology and philosophy of perception): What you can directly hear or sense without any tools or scientific instruments—just your raw, unaided senses.
Representational resource(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge)): A tool, model, or method that helps us understand or depict something—in this case, the mathematical and conceptual tools scientists use to map out how earthquakes actually break the ground.
Rupture geometry(as used in seismology and this philosophical argument): The exact shape, size, and pattern of how rock breaks and shifts during an earthquake.

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