| The death-toll lag has come from the country nearest the underwater epicenter of the earthquake, Indonesia. |
| This was the area that was orientated directly towards the epicenter of the earthquake, and therefore to the tsunami. |
| That said, we didn't know when it struck whether the epicenter was right around us, to the west of us or the east of us or in what direction. |
| Its epicenter, the location on the earth's surface directly above the quake, was at Duck Creek. |
| Relief workers arrived to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunami. |
| By the late 1980s and 1990s, however, there had been a shift in the epicenter of concern about ecology. |
