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

According to the agency, the epicenter was about five miles east-southeast of Cloverdale, around 19 miles from Clearlake and 22 miles from Santa Rosa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

More than an hour after the quake, an apparent explosion rocked an Aeon shopping mall near the quake’s epicenter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

Their epicenter was a small ring with fissures circling outward.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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 virus then forced my wife Elvira and I to live apart from each other for the next 18 months — I in New York City, she in Italy, the two worldwide epicenters.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025

A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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