epicenter

To be sure, the Bay Area is an AI startup epicenter but this is likely to offer opportunities for the investor class, a handful of entrepreneurs and well-compensated “genius” programmers, not middle- and working-class Californians.

And states like Sinaloa that have been at the epicenter of the drug trade have seen an exponential rise in killings.

The city of Los Angeles, an epicenter of sport championship events, is adding yet another tournament to its host list: global competitive esports.

Thursday, with an epicenter 10 miles east of Cloverdale, 20 miles northwest of Calistoga and 26 miles north of Santa Rosa.

It feels like the cultural epicenter of the country and also, obviously, a cultural protagonist of the planet.