The epicentre of that earthquake was about 20 kms north of Napier, on the opposite side of the North Island. |
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Towns in Indonesia's Aceh province, the closest region to the earthquake's epicentre, were swamped by the waves. |
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The point nearest to the surface is the epicentre and marks the site where the quake is strongest. |
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Deep in bowels of the mansion was the epicentre of communication technology and field command. |
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These bombs vaporised all living life and flattened all buildings within the epicentre of the explosion. |
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The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown. |
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The area is an epicentre for earthquakes caused by tectonic plates moving apart. |
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An epicentre of earthquakes somewhere in the southeast Atlantic shivered the Grand Banks, and there was a massive sloughing off. |
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Locating the action in the dark recesses of Ian's mind, his depraved fantasy-land becomes the symbolical epicentre of mankind's propensity toward evil. |
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Cultured, cosmopolitan Sarajevo became the epicentre and the icon of this anguish. |
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It's epicentre is Mumbai where 45,000 of India's 61,000 Parsi-Irani Zoroastrians live. |
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An earlier version referred to the epicentre, rather than centre, of a story big enough to accommodate Dyke's personality. |
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Their testimonies report a bleaker situation than first expected in this area, yet quite far away from the epicentre. |
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On the day after the earthquake, the injured from the region of the epicentre flooded toward the medical centres in the surrounding regions. |
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Deh-e-Bagh, a previously unheard-of village south of Kandahar would be the starting point, and epicentre of this new approach. |
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The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami was located offshore near the beach resort of Pangandaran in West Java. |
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Every building within 80 to 90 kilometres of the epicentre of the earthquake is in ruins. |
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The world is going through a serious crisis, with its epicentre in the financial system, which has already contaminated the real economy. |
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The pair have been helping people on an island off North Sumatra, the closest inhabited area to the epicentre of the earthquake, which was ravaged by the deadly waves. |
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But it is growing exponentially and threatening to turn the region into an epicentre of lawlessness and instability. |
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The torrential rain falling in the West, where the epicentre of the earthquake was, aggravates their situation. |
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The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas. |
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All countries have been affected, from the crisis's epicentre in advanced countries to its periphery in emerging countries. |
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The epicentre of the county, it lacks little in services and facilities, and indeed is seen as the envy of many other locations of similar size and population. |
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The water shifted above a quake does not move across the ocean, i.e. a log floating at the surface above the epicentre would not have been carried to Thailand or Somalia. |
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Inside the gate a carpet of bricks, plaster, glass, wood and office paper stretched around 40 feet to a crater which marked the epicentre of the explosion. |
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And at the epicentre of the military build-up is it's air base. |
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And what is this Black Box, if not an epicentre of devilish debauchery. |
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It is no coincidence, then, that this area can be considered the epicentre of noma. |
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She recalled an investigation from a couple of years back, when they discovered themselves at the epicentre of an earth tremor, the largest the country had seen for years. |
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A Royal Navy survey ship has been sent to investigate the epicentre of the underwater earthquake which created the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean. |
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We did an investigation a couple of years back, finding ourselves right at the epicentre of a minor earthquake, one of the largest the country had seen for years. |
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We see the destroyed streets in the epicentre Léogâne, where already life is triumphing over death, so offering hope in spite of everything. |
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Now there are hints of pleasure at the idea that the epicentre of bullishness may be humbled. |
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By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands. |
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Chile was also luckier that the quake's epicentre was much deeper down in the earth than in Haiti, mitigating its destructive power. |
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The epicentre of the quake was 111 km southwest of Karakul, the USGS said, a sparsely populated mountainous area. |
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Near the epicentre, horizontal accelerations of 1.8g were recorded. |
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The epicentre was in the Sandwich area of east Kent at a depth of some ten miles from the surface. |
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Milan in the 20th century was the epicentre of the Futurist artistic movement. |
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It soon becomes clear that their presence in this epicentre of northern European dullness has something to do with an earlier, catastrophically botched job and a terrible anguish that Ray is carrying in his heart. |
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However, the earthquake's epicentre was only 43 km from the Solomon Islands' coast, leaving very little time for any official warnings to reach the residents of Gizo, the worst-hit town. |
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This seat of power was also the epicentre of political seismic activity: the assassination of President Laurent Desire Kabila in 2001 nearly brought the country into another war. |
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When an earthquake occurs, the shock waves leave from the epicentre to be reflected against the Earth's internal interfaces or even refracted or diffracted. |
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Life didn't start off quite so rosy for David who was abandoned at only one month by his birth mother near the bus station in Léogane, the epicentre of the earthquake. |
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This is mostly a calumny: the epicentre was the American mortgage market, one of the most regulated industries on Earth, and Leviathan's hand was all over much of the mess that followed. |
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When I stood three blocks away from that epicentre a month after that incident occurred, I stood there and I watched as the steam was still venting from the epicentre. |
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While conceding this has been a global recession, we all recognize its epicentre is and continues to be our neighbour to the south, our largest trading partner, the United States. |
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The torrential rain now coming down in the western region, the epicentre of the earthquake, worsens the situation of the stricken people in the camps, where the population grows daily. |
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A couple of decades ago, few industry watchers would have imagined that a staid industry like power and utilities would find itself at the epicentre of one of society's defining issues. |
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We carry out a triangulation of the space which finds its epicentre in the audience's eye. The spectator recomposes his own site geography from his own point of view. |
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For the people of Sumatra, which lies very close to the epicentre of the seaquake, a warning would very likely have come to late, because the water reached the island already after a few minutes. |
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The epicentre of this earthquake was located in Papan District, one of the most seismically active areas of Kyrgyzstan, which consequentially suffered the most damages. |
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Tsunamis, for example, travel at over 600 kmph and can produce 30 metre high waves thousands of kilometres from the epicentre of an earthquake in a matter of hours. |
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Situated close to the Sumatra trench, it lifted the sea floor 6 m over a distance of 1000 km and a width of 130 km, displacing trillions of litres of water and inundating coastlines thousands of kilometres from the epicentre. |
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Meanwhile, the situation has worsened at Mt. Merapi, an active volcano near the epicentre of the earthquake, with more than 190 hot clouds discharged in just two days and the lava dome expanding. |
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Like an earthquake, with an epicentre and seismic waves that reached other zones at varying speeds, the crisis affects all countries and all sectors. |
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They well know that is why their numbers are collapsing in British Columbia. British Columbia has been at the epicentre of the thousands of lost jobs because of this egregiously bad policy. |
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Koh Tao is a diving epicentre and, as a result, the main town, Mae Haad, is also a backpacker's haven, its narrow pathways and rising streets crammed with budget accommodation. |
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The other CF area of responsibility in Haiti is centred on Léogâne, a city of approximately 130,000 residents located 20 kilometres from Port-au-Prince, at the epicentre of the earthquake. |
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The epicentre of the blast was located in or adjacent to the emergency generator and electric heating and ventilation system located at the back of the building. |
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Healthy children are the epicentre of every yearly influenza epidemic. |
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In 2006 in southern Africa, the epicentre of the global AIDS epidemic, WFP assisted 7.2 million people affected by HIV through the social protection platform. |
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Therefore, evaluations of an earthquake's epicentre, scale, depth and location, energy direction and displacement of fault motion are used in designing a theoretical tsunami. |
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In the countryside, it seems like there are fewer misfortunes. But on the side of Gressier, right close to the epicentre, it is as though not one house was left standing. |
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One of the things he enjoys most about working at the Heart Institute, apart from being at the epicentre of cardiac care, education and research, is the close, interactive relationship he has with clinicians. |
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According to the evidence at hand, South and Southeast Asia is the epicentre of the HIV epidemic, the majority of new infections are said to be occurring in this region. |
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The point is that, prior to these events, all eyes were on China, whose economic dynamism lent credibility to the eastward shift in the economic epicentre of the world. |
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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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The Hellenistic period saw the literary epicentre of the Greek world move from Athens, where it had been in the classical period, to Alexandria. |
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But Lardy Cake isn't really a London thing anyway. Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire is to my mind the epicentre of lardies. |
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The quake's epicentre was located about 125 miles south of Athens near the island of Kythira. |
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He said the quake's epicentre was located in the Hindu Kush in neighbouring Afghanistan. |
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The epicentre of yesterday's tremor, in the Hindu Kush mountains, triggered landslides and collapsed buildings across remote areas that could be left impassible. |
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What sparked off the protests to begin with was a water dispute in Daraa, the so-called epicentre of the peaceful Syria revolution, with Alawis and Druze doing the protesting. |
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The epicentre was located 145 kilometres south-east of Central Maluku, at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency. |
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The location of the earthquake in the North Sea meant that damage was significantly less than it would have been had the epicentre been on the British mainland. |
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The epicentre of attention will be the picturesque Manuka Oval, which will be the venue for enthusiasts to catch all the enthralling sporting action. |
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