epicenter
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Some earthquakes are felt with greatest force far from their epicenter.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
A particular focus for investors is Texas, which Acree calls “the clear epicenter of the U.S. AI data-center buildout, with the state likely accounting for roughly 30% of national capacity additions” through 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
There was a rebound in shares of the cloud-computing and software firms at the epicenter of concerns about credit stress caused by AI-infrastructure borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Many people were evacuated from buildings in Panama City, about 200 kilometers from the epicenter, AFP witnessed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon Valley.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
The temblors — with epicenters about 100 miles west of Caracas — were the deadliest to hit Venezuela in almost a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Industrial-scale scam compounds have sprouted across Southeast Asia, and Cambodia has become one of the epicenters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
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
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