epicenter
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Choco was at the epicenter of the quake, and the death toll from the area was not immediately known.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
More than an hour after the quake, an apparent explosion rocked an Aeon shopping mall near the quake’s epicenter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
At the epicenter of the break, Bullwinkle managed to pull a rabbit out of his hat and save himself and Rocky while everything around them was swept away July 17 in West Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define what freedom really meant after the Civil War.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
A good five minutes must have passed before I felt strong enough to reach up and touch the pain’s epicenter on my right temple.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
College campuses have been epicenters for protest movements and free speech since the Vietnam War era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The virus then forced my wife Elvira and I to live apart from each other for the next 18 months — I in New York City, she in Italy, the two worldwide epicenters.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
It says it was established in 2019 in the Philippines, one of the epicenters of the plastic pollution crisis.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Regions near these historic earthquakes' epicenters are still seismically active today, so it's possible that some modern earthquakes could be long-lived aftershocks of past quakes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
“We refer to these as epicenters of survivorship,” Crisafulli said, who finished his degree and came back to Mount St. Helens to work for the Forest Service.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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