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Epicenter
Point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocentre or focus in an earthquake / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Epicenter (disambiguation).
The epicenter (/ˈɛpɪˌsɛntər/), epicentre, or epicentrum[1] in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.
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