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

To date, 15 states have reported high numbers of cyclosporiasis cases; the epicenter continues to be in Michigan, whose state public health department has reported more than 12,400 sickened residents, 279 hospitalizations and two deaths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Hypatia stood at the epicenter of these mighty social forces.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024

It says it was established in 2019 in the Philippines, one of the epicenters of the plastic pollution crisis.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 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