Sentence examples for epicentre point from inspiring English sources

Epicentre, point on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the underground point (called the focus) where fault rupture commences, producing an earthquake.

If there were complete symmetry about the vertical through the earthquake's focus, isoseismals would be circles with the epicentre (the point at the surface of the Earth immediately above where the earthquake originated) as the centre.

OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan warned that Europe's debt problems were the biggest factor hitting the global recovery: The euro area remains a crucial point, the epicentre of the crisis The OECD also called on the European Central Bank to cut the interest rate at which it lends to eurozone banks – something that should be discussed in Frankfurt today.

I awoke washed up on Plastic Beach, Point Nemo, the epicentre of Antarctic inaccessibility.

Despite the fact that the epicentre of the ominous blast pointed in all directions to a remote research facility manned by Aum Shinrikyo, the notorious Japanese death-cult noted for its attempts at mining uranium and its grim obsession with alternative weapons technology, the whole event was eventually shrugged off and forgotten about.

Earwax has been in Brooklyn for 22 years, long before the borough became the epicentre of hipsterdom and a focal point for the world's best new indie music.

While many say that Clarke was at the epicentre of the rot, some activists pointed the finger at other figures within the party.

The most probable position of the epicentre is often assumed to be at a point inside the area of highest intensity.

"Gaming as a market is also at a turning point: the Nordics are the clear epicentre of this industry, and studios from all around the world are eyeing the region as a talent pool for the purpose of scaling.

The great range of P-waves makes them useful in identifying earthquakes from observation points a great distance from the epicentre.

We use this to describe the shape of the "epicentre" from our irregularly spaced ground magnetometer measurement points.