The Santa Cruz Mountains suffered little damage from seismic waves, although they are located near the epicenter. Some of the words that defined the week of April 3, 2020, France reported 3,776 new infections on Wednesday, the largest daily increase in three months, while Spain — which has once again become an epicenter of the pandemic on the continent — recorded 3,715 new cases, most since April 23. Nevertheless, the epicenter is often used for diseases and other disasters, both in the media and in epidemiology. When violent movements take place below the earth`s surface, earthquakes emit destructive vibrational waves, similar to waves after throwing a stone into a lake. The epicenter is where on the surface these waves begin. The Greek epikentros means “located on a center”, and there you will find the epicenter, the center that died in the destruction of an earthquake. Of course, you don`t really want to find it because it`s a bit dangerous there. The meaning of epi- in the epicenter is “over”, so the epicenter of an earthquake is above the center or “focus” of the earthquake. Epicenter can also refer to centers of things that may seem powerful in their own way, but not as destructive, like earthquakes. One could say, for example, that Wall Street is at the epicenter of the financial world. All trips take place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the epicenter of Tornado Alley, a stretch of land that stretches from central Texas to South Dakota and produces many of the nearly 1,200 events each year. Liberia, the epicenter of the outbreak, relied on only 50 doctors to treat the entire country before the outbreak broke out. Earthquakes start deep underground, and the epicenter is the central location of the earthquake, the ground point just above where an earthquake begins.
One semantic objection is that the epicenter implies a singular center of a disaster, which is misleading for many disasters such as diseases that do not spread simply by radiation. Instead, Hot Spot is preferred by some as less misleading. [1] Wuhan, once the epicenter of the virus, tested 10 million of its roughly 11 million residents in 19 days in May, using pop-up testing sites to collect throat swabs and an army of county government officials to contact residents. The fact that these tensions are present even in the epicenter of the mindfulness world is telling. “Expat bankers are definitely in the drug/prostitute scene, and Wan Chai is the epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast. To make matters worse, Texas is the epicenter of the country for self-contained emergency rooms that are not connected to hospitals. The movement of the ground near the epicenter was so violent that the tops of some trees were broken. Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of almost every rebellion in Congo.
Miami-Dade and Broward County remain the epicenter of the Florida pandemic, accounting for 25 and 12 percent of the state`s total cases, respectively. The location of an earthquake is usually described by the geographical location of its epicenter and its focal length. It seemed like I had found myself as a staunch feminist in the epicenter of macho culture. Epicenter (picenters present simple in the third person singular, present participle epicentrium, epicenter of the simple past and past participle) meaning of the “center of activity (especially a catastrophe)” (1908) by generalization of earthquakes, possibly influenced by the epidemic. [1] epi- (“above, above”) + center, from the ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on”) + κέντρον (kentron, “center”). New Latin epicentrum, from epi- + Latin centrum center Search the dictionary of politics, civil courts and the world of disease The loose use of “center” or specifically “center of a catastrophe” is criticized by some as pretentious and false,[2][3][4] since epi-specific means “above, above” and is not a generic amplifier.