epicenter

Deadly leadership battles are a problem that has long plagued other nations at the epicenter of Latin America’s decades-old drug war, underscoring the difficulty of stanching violence and curbing the flow of drugs.

As it happens, Blue Owl’s data-center project in Abilene is on the edge of the West Texas oil patch that was the epicenter of the fracking boom.

Sendai, a large city close to the epicenter, was hit by the full force of the quake, but all of Honshu felt it.

The Internet bubble had burst, and yet house prices in San Jose, the bubble’s epicenter, were still rising.

Ventura County was also the epicenter of two other devastating recent fires, both of which were sparked by power lines.