In some ways, Bigelow's film repudiates the conventions of narrative: it could be seen as simply a series of unbearably tense vignettes, in which a soldier, his face dripping with fear and sweat, is hunched surgeon-like over a suspect device in the epicentre of an area that has been cleared in the shape of the coming blast.
The force was greater than 7 MSK, with its epicentre in the area around Portsmouth or Chichester, South England.
A Pacific-wide tsunami warning was not issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, although the organization pointed out the possibility of local tsunamis within 100 km of the epicentre, roughly the area between La Serena and Concepción.
In some cases, instrumental data verify this calculation, but not infrequently the true epicentre lies outside the area of greatest intensity.
SOLDIERS block the road from Bannu, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NFWP), to Miran Shah, the capital of the North Waziristan tribal area and epicentre of an ugly war.
Yet unless a relative picked up Sebit's corpse, he would be buried in a communal grave with dozens of others who had died in the Jebel area, the epicentre of recent fighting between government and opposition forces in South Sudan's capital, Juba.
While some of these studies are fully grounded with merits on the challenges of coastal areas in other places, very little effort has been directed to the southern Mississippi coastal area; an epicentre of past coastal disasters.
On 11 March 2011, at 14 46, a huge magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck this area, its epicentre ca. 130 km to the east, off Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture.
For the endoscopic location of AFI-targeted areas, the agreement was expressed as κ value; agreement among endoscopists was defined as their specification of the epicentre of the AFI+ area within 30° of the endoscopic view.
Mass casualties were avoided owing to a combination of building evacuations prompted by the weaker shock and an epicentre removed from populous areas.
