epicentre

/ ˈɛpɪˌsɛntə /

noun

See focus
the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake or underground nuclear explosion Compare focus
informal.
the absolute centre of something
the epicentre of world sprinting

C19: from New Latin epicentrum, from Greek epikentros over the centre, from epi- + kentron needle; see centre

The sounds are rarely heard by them more than a few miles from the epicentre.

At the epicentre, the angle of emergence is a right-angle; at a great distance from the epicentre, it is nearly zero.

Naples lies sixty-nine miles from the north-west epicentre, and here more accurate observations could be made.

These are the determination of the double epicentre, and the measurement of the velocity with which the earth-waves travelled.

On the opposite side of the epicentre, the waves meet the Sierra de Ronda obliquely.

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