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the surface point that takes the blame for chaos happening miles below.
means The point on the earth's surface directly above the underground spot (the focus) where an earthquake actually begins.
from Coined in the late 19th century by seismologists from the Greek 'epi-' (upon, over) plus 'kentron' (center, originally the sharp point of a compass) — literally 'the point upon the center.' That root 'kentron' also gives us 'center' itself, a cousin born of the same compass needle. The technical sense is precise: the epicenter sits directly above the focus deep below, which is why it now gets borrowed (to purists' irritation) to mean the loud heart of any crisis.
- not the source
- It's above the actual quake, called the hypocenter
- word origin
- Greek for 'over the center'
- misused daily
- It means the point, not the worst part
- deep liar
- True rupture can sit hundreds of miles down