epicentre in the PONS Dictionary

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Around the blast's epicentre, the street resembled a battlefield.
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The resulting data is used to locate the epicentre, and distinguish between the seismic signatures of an underground nuclear explosion and an earthquake.
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Mass casualties were avoided owing to a combination of building evacuations prompted by the weaker shock and an epicentre removed from populous areas.
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Many churches in towns around the epicentre suffered damage.
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As the epicentre was on land away from the coast, no tsunami occurred.
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The epicentre of the disaster was probably close to the coast, possibly offshore, although the exact position remains unknown.
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A detective-sergeant established that the explosion's epicentre was to the right of the table where the two girls had been sitting.
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Being relatively deep, the quake was felt over a large area and it is not certain where the epicentre was located.
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This can be explained by the remoteness of the tremor's epicentre.
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Despite the violence and poverty, it was the epicentre of politics, jazz and blues during the 1940s and 1950s.
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