What does epicenter mean?

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  1. (US) Alternative spelling of epicentre
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By the late 1980s and 1990s, however, there had been a shift in the epicenter of concern about ecology.
The geographic point directly above the focus is called the earthquake epicenter.
The death-toll lag has come from the country nearest the underwater epicenter of the earthquake, Indonesia.
After the break, we'll take a closer look at the man at the epicenter of a political earthquake.
This was the area that was orientated directly towards the epicenter of the earthquake, and therefore to the tsunami.
Its epicenter, the location on the earth's surface directly above the quake, was at Duck Creek.

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