"epicenter" is an accepted and understandable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the center of an event or activity, such as "the epicenter of the protest movement."
Similarly, the WHA of the 1970s brought professional hockey to mid-sized Canadian cities left unserved by the NHL like Edmonton and Winnipeg, and American cities far from the game's northern epicenter like Los Angeles and Houston.
The junction of North and Pennsylvania avenues was the epicenter of Monday's riots, and a focal point for the week-long protests against the death in police custody of Freddie Gray.
Reporting from the epicenter of this gold rush, the Stamford Advocate observed recently that six local hedge-fund managers pocketed a combined $2.15 billion in 2005.
You may call Mexico City, the largest city in the world, impractical just because it is located 2250 meters above sea level and is built over a swamp, yet it too is the epicenter of indigenous and modern civilizations.
Eisenhower was at the epicenter of the debacle, the man pulling the strings from the beginning.
THE banking world has taken a clear turn for the worse of late, and the epicenter of the difficulties is Britain.
ZERO HEDGE has audio of "what a full market meltdown panic sounds like: straight from the epicenter, the S&P 500 pits".
The "impractical capital" is also home to close to 2m people (including El Alto), and represents the world's capital to the Aymara, a civilization that extends to Peru and certain regions in Ecuador.La Paz is located at the epicenter of almost every ecosystem on earth.
But what's really tragic is that Pakistan happens to be at the epicenter of a crucial ongoing vaccination programme: the worldwide campaign to eliminate polio, which has been hampered by opposition from Muslim clerics.
America, the epicenter of many of the newest things, comes tenth in the ranking.
The epicenter was between the towns of Finale Emilia, San Felice sul Panaro and Sermide, but the quake was felt as far away as Tuscany and northern Alto Adige.
