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The epicentre of that earthquake was about 20 kms north of Napier, on the opposite side of the North Island.
Towns in Indonesia's Aceh province, the closest region to the earthquake's epicentre, were swamped by the waves.
The point nearest to the surface is the epicentre and marks the site where the quake is strongest.
Deep in bowels of the mansion was the epicentre of communication technology and field command.
These bombs vaporised all living life and flattened all buildings within the epicentre of the explosion.
The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown.
The area is an epicentre for earthquakes caused by tectonic plates moving apart.
An epicentre of earthquakes somewhere in the southeast Atlantic shivered the Grand Banks, and there was a massive sloughing off.
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.
Cultured, cosmopolitan Sarajevo became the epicentre and the icon of this anguish.
It's epicentre is Mumbai where 45,000 of India's 61,000 Parsi-Irani Zoroastrians live.
An earlier version referred to the epicentre, rather than centre, of a story big enough to accommodate Dyke's personality.
Their testimonies report a bleaker situation than first expected in this area, yet quite far away from the epicentre.
On the day after the earthquake, the injured from the region of the epicentre flooded toward the medical centres in the surrounding regions.
Deh-e-Bagh, a previously unheard-of village south of Kandahar would be the starting point, and epicentre of this new approach.
The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami was located offshore near the beach resort of Pangandaran in West Java.
Every building within 80 to 90 kilometres of the epicentre of the earthquake is in ruins.
The world is going through a serious crisis, with its epicentre in the financial system, which has already contaminated the real economy.
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.
But it is growing exponentially and threatening to turn the region into an epicentre of lawlessness and instability.
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In determining the position of the epicentre, Mallet's method was closely followed.
The sounds are rarely heard by them more than a few miles from the epicentre.
On the opposite side of the epicentre, the waves meet the Sierra de Ronda obliquely.
The portion of the earth's surface which is vertically above the seismic focus is called the epicentre.
The method employed by him for the purpose is no less simple theoretically than that used for locating the epicentre.
The point of origin is called the centre or seismic focus, and the place on the surface vertically over it the epicentre.
A vertical line joining the epicentre and the focus was termed by Mallet the seismic vertical.
The intensity, or violence, of an earthquake is greatest in or near the epicentre, whence it decreases in all directions.
Lines drawn through places around the epicentre at which the shock arrives at the same moment are called coseismal lines.
The quake was measured at a depth of 47 km, with the epicentre 134 km northwest of Ternate, an island in eastern Indonesia's Moluccas.
Further from the epicentre, in the yellow zone, roofs were deemed to be at risk of collapse under the weight of volcanic ash and falling pumice stone.
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