hypocentre
Britishnoun
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Also called: ground zero. the point on the ground immediately below the centre of explosion of a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere
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another term for focus
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The region within which the displacement occurs is sometimes called the hypocentre, but more frequently the seismic focus or simply the focus.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
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