Search for crossword answers and clues
Focal point, as of a quake
Answer for the clue "Focal point, as of a quake ", 9 letters:
epicenter
Alternative clues for the word epicenter
Word definitions for epicenter in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Epicenter (full title Epicenter: Why Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future ) is a 2006 non-fiction Christian book by political column poster Joel C. Rosenberg . The book was released on September 1, 2006 through Tyndale House Publishers, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885 in seismology, "point on the earth's surface directly above the center or focus of an earthquake," from Modern Latin epicentrum (1879 in geological use); see epi- + center (n.). Related: Epicentral (1866).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) (alternative spelling of epicentre English) n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of epicentre English)
Usage examples of epicenter.
At the very epicenter of Hell squatted Lucifer, the archfiend of all Creation.
It was the epicenter of Eurosexuals, teeming with dark-haired men who stood in the middle of the restaurant, hovering above their cassoulets, nicoises, and croque monsieurs.
Well, until that happy day, we'll be well away from the epicenter when the Crash comes which Alden says is coming.
Others, hit by spinning debris or caught in the flames spreading from the epicenters of the targets, stumbled screaming in pain and terror.
The mortar that Roger had dropped lay in fat shards at the epicenter of the black burst, making Daniel think of the cannon that had exploded at the “Siege of Maestricht,” and other such disasters he had heard about lately aboard ships of the Royal Navy.
Dating from the time at which it may be assumed that McHogue first placed the CI modules into operation, there is a growing body of evidencenavigational instrument deviations, subspace sensor readings, and the likethat a fundamental cosmological shift is taking place, with the city of Moagitty functioning as its epicenter.