epicenter

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

Its “pivotal middleness” makes it “the epicenter of our tumultuous, rushing, interconnected world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

For towns and cities close to the epicenter of the Great Tohoku Earthquake, the warning came fifteen seconds before the tremors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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 2022 variant, known as Clade II, continues to circulate in the U.S., including in Los Angeles and San Francisco — two the epicenters of the last outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Churches were the epicenters of the Black community and to be taken seriously at all times, which is the main reason I enjoy the idea behind "The Book of Clarence" so much.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024

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

Epidemiologists have since discovered that the northwestern shore of Lake Victoria was one of the initial epicenters of aids.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston