0 the point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake or atomic explosion --
1 the point on the earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake: --
The U.S. cannot simply assume that it will remain the epicenter of scientific research and technological innovation.
The Great Nicobar islands lie at the closest point to the epicenter of the earthquake.
The epicenter of the second major shock was slightly more to the north than the previous tremors.
The 1906 rupture propagated both northward and southward from its epicenter for a total of about 300 mi.
The causeways indicate a system that was less well geared to individual access to markets and commodities than to managing the flow of goods through the epicenter and termini.
Two injections were applied 1 mm rostral and two injections 1 mm caudal to the lesion epicenter, and one injection at each side 0.5 mm lateral to the cord midline.
The areas outside the epicenter were abandoned shortly after the destruction of the epicenter.
The temples in the mural represented five actual temples with serpent imagery that rested in the ceremonial epicenter of the city.
Sixteen of the needles derive from tombs or burials; six of these interments are from the site's epicenter.
All of the known termini from this initial ring have plazas that are as large as the major plazas in the epicenter.
