EPICENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epicenter mean? 

• EPICENTER (noun)
  The noun EPICENTER has 1 sense:

1. the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

  Familiarity information: EPICENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPICENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

epicenter; epicentre

Hypernyms ("epicenter" is a kind of...):

geographic point; geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)

 Context examples 

The data show that after the initial earthquake rupture (indicated by the vertical black line) it took about 21 minutes for the earthquake-generated ionospheric disturbance to reach a GPS station (LHAZ), located about 400 miles (640 kilometers) away from the epicenter in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)