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epicenter

/ep-uh-sen-ter/US // ˈɛp əˌsɛn tər //

震中,正中,正中点,震中地区

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also epicentrum. Geology. a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate.
    • : a focal point, as of activity: Manhattan's Chinatown is the epicenter of the city's Chinese community.

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  • All trips are based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the epicenter of Tornado Alley, a swath of land that runs from central Texas to South Dakota and spawns many of the approximately 1,200 events each year.

  • Complicating matters, Texas is the nation’s epicenter for free-standing emergency rooms that are not connected to hospitals.

  • France on Wednesday reported 3,776 new infections, the largest daily increase in three months, while Spain—which has re-emerged as an epicenter of the pandemic on the continent—recorded 3,715 new cases, the most since April 23.

  • Miami-Dade and Broward Counties remain the pandemic’s epicenter in Florida, with 25 and 12 percent of the state’s total cases respectively.

  • Wuhan, once the epicenter of the virus, tested 10 million out of its roughly 11 million population in 19 days in May, using pop-up test sites to take throat swabs and an army of district government staff to contact residents.

  • Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of nearly every rebellion in the Congo.

  • It seemed that I, a staunch feminist, had found myself in the epicenter of macho culture.

  • “Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.

  • The fact that these tensions are present even at the epicenter of the mindfulness world is telling.

  • Liberia, the epicenter of the epidemic, was relying on just 50 doctors to care for the entire nation before the outbreak occurred.

  • The ground motion near the epicenter was so violent that the tops of some trees were snapped off.

  • The location of an earthquake is commonly described by the geographic position of its epicenter and by its focal depth.

  • The Santa Cruz mountains suffered little damage from the seismic waves, even though they were close to the epicenter.