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单词 epicentre
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Definition of epicentre in English:

epicentre

(US epicenter)
noun ˈɛpɪsɛntəˈɛpəˌsɛn(t)ər
  • 1The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A Royal Navy survey ship has been sent to investigate the epicentre of the underwater earthquake which created the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
    • We did an investigation a couple of years back, finding ourselves right at the epicentre of a minor earthquake, one of the largest the country had seen for years.
    • Police feared the number of casualties could rise even further once authorities reach remote areas, including a tiny island closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, which struck on Sunday night.
    • This was the area that was orientated directly towards the epicenter of the earthquake, and therefore to the tsunami.
    • Another perhaps useful notion here is that of earthquakes having epicentres and aftershocks.
    • By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands.
    • The point nearest to the surface is the epicentre and marks the site where the quake is strongest.
    • The most persuasive evidence for the existence of subduction zones is the narrow Benioff zones of earthquake epicentres dipping away from deep-sea trenches.
    • The area is an epicentre for earthquakes caused by tectonic plates moving apart.
    • 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.
    • The epicentre of that earthquake was about 20 kms north of Napier, on the opposite side of the North Island.
    • The British Geological Survey said the epicentre of the earthquake - the largest to hit Britain for ten years - was ‘right under Birmingham’.
    • The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas.
    • Its epicenter, the location on the earth's surface directly above the quake, was at Duck Creek.
    • She recalled an investigation from a couple of years back, when they discovered themselves at the epicentre of an earth tremor, the largest the country had seen for years.
    • The water shifted above a quake does not move across the ocean, i.e. a log floating at the surface above the epicentre would not have been carried to Thailand or Somalia.
    • Relief workers arrived to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunami.
    • The death-toll lag has come from the country nearest the underwater epicenter of the earthquake, Indonesia.
    • The geographic point directly above the focus is called the earthquake epicenter.
    • The epicenter of the earthquake was on land - unlike last month's quake - and caused no tsunami.
    1. 1.1 The central point of something, typically a difficult or unpleasant situation.
      the epicentre of labour militancy was the capital itself
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The epicentre of military action, and therefore, of military losses, in the European war was the German - Soviet war.
      • By the late 1980s and 1990s, however, there had been a shift in the epicenter of concern about ecology.
      • And at the epicentre of the military build-up is it's air base.
      • But round these parts eating is only a warm-up for the main event, as I discover when we later descend into the teeming lanes around Concert Square, epicentre of Liverpool nightlife.

Derivatives

  • epicentral

  • adjective ɛpɪˈsɛntr(ə)l
    • An overflight of the epicentral region on Wednesday afternoon by U.S. Geological Survey scientists revealed numerous small rockslides and snowslides adjacent to the fault over a 25-mile long zone east of the town of Cantwell.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We propose that this transcurrent structure within the Adria plate exerts a major control on the seismotectonic behaviour of the epicentral area of the 2002 Molise seismic sequence.
      • ‘Our information is that there was a tsunami but it was rather small, of the order of one to two metres in Wewak town and it was also recorded at Karkar island, which is about 350 km to the east of the epicentral area,’ he said.
      • He himself emerges as epicentral to the thought and practice of modern consumerism.
      • Buildings did remain standing even in the epicentral region at Bhuj.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek epikentros 'situated on a centre', from epi 'upon' + kentron 'centre'.

  • This is from Greek epikentros ‘situated on a centre’, from epi- ‘upon’ and kentron ‘centre’. It originally meant the point immediately above an earthquake, but has been used as an emphatic form of ‘centre’ since at least 1970.

 
 

Definition of epicenter in US English:

epicenter

(British epicentre)
nounˈepəˌsen(t)ərˈɛpəˌsɛn(t)ər
  • 1The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands.
    • The point nearest to the surface is the epicentre and marks the site where the quake is strongest.
    • We did an investigation a couple of years back, finding ourselves right at the epicentre of a minor earthquake, one of the largest the country had seen for years.
    • The epicentre of that earthquake was about 20 kms north of Napier, on the opposite side of the North Island.
    • 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.
    • Its epicenter, the location on the earth's surface directly above the quake, was at Duck Creek.
    • Police feared the number of casualties could rise even further once authorities reach remote areas, including a tiny island closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, which struck on Sunday night.
    • This was the area that was orientated directly towards the epicenter of the earthquake, and therefore to the tsunami.
    • She recalled an investigation from a couple of years back, when they discovered themselves at the epicentre of an earth tremor, the largest the country had seen for years.
    • The most persuasive evidence for the existence of subduction zones is the narrow Benioff zones of earthquake epicentres dipping away from deep-sea trenches.
    • A Royal Navy survey ship has been sent to investigate the epicentre of the underwater earthquake which created the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
    • The death-toll lag has come from the country nearest the underwater epicenter of the earthquake, Indonesia.
    • Relief workers arrived to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunami.
    • The epicenter of the earthquake was on land - unlike last month's quake - and caused no tsunami.
    • The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas.
    • The British Geological Survey said the epicentre of the earthquake - the largest to hit Britain for ten years - was ‘right under Birmingham’.
    • The area is an epicentre for earthquakes caused by tectonic plates moving apart.
    • The water shifted above a quake does not move across the ocean, i.e. a log floating at the surface above the epicentre would not have been carried to Thailand or Somalia.
    • The geographic point directly above the focus is called the earthquake epicenter.
    • Another perhaps useful notion here is that of earthquakes having epicentres and aftershocks.
    1. 1.1 The central point of something, typically a difficult or unpleasant situation.
      the patient was at the epicenter of concern
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The epicentre of military action, and therefore, of military losses, in the European war was the German - Soviet war.
      • But round these parts eating is only a warm-up for the main event, as I discover when we later descend into the teeming lanes around Concert Square, epicentre of Liverpool nightlife.
      • And at the epicentre of the military build-up is it's air base.
      • By the late 1980s and 1990s, however, there had been a shift in the epicenter of concern about ecology.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek epikentros ‘situated on a center’, from epi ‘upon’ + kentron ‘center’.

 
 
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