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It’s an idea that’s epicentral to the identity of the place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

"In particular, the manuscript mentions that many settlements around Camerino were reduced to piles of stones, indicating that the epicentral area was possibly the same as in 1799," he added.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Cable-based sensors could identify the "epicentral area" of an earthquake in the same way as land-based seismometers, the researchers suggest.

From BBC • May 19, 2022

Mr. Jones quit the county leadership in 1967 as the party machines calcified and a shrinking population began to undermine Harlem’s epicentral political position.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2010

Its epicentral area was very small, comprising only Butuan and the towns close to the mouth of the Agusan River.

From Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Saderra Masó, Miguel