epicentre

We’ll be sending her there to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story. ’ [0] She refused to go.

Being in Moscow, which is 6000+ km away from the epicentre of the earthquake, we still felt the tremors... Fascinating.

The word epicentre has the obvious connotation of being the central point of some kind of quake, the point from which all waves originate. The word centre does not.

There's no running from that fact no matter how hard you try, We're right at the epicentre of it all. If the explosion has limited impact on you, then the shrapnel is bound to hit.

Whereas 'country is the epicentre' is more obviously intended as hyperbole.

See also "epicentre". Upvoted - I appreciate the observation about where the NFT volume comes from.

"It is worth remembering that the epicentre of the 2008 disaster was American property, hardly a free market undistorted by government." This was the line of the piece for me.

Notman house is definitely at the epicentre of the currently booming montreal startup scene. I really hope they manage to get to match their goal and secure the house for the benefit of all the montreal entrepreneurs.

Yes, it takes a little while for seismic waves to travel from the epicentre to locations a fair distance away. The high speed trains are programmed to start braking as soon as an alert is heard - it's usually enough to shed 100mph or so off the speed before getting in trouble.

It takes measurable time for communities miles away from the epicentre to get hit, and in that time you could easily send a warning. Many of the videos from the Japan tsunami showed people getting alerted well before the quake hit.

I did the same as you in Christchurch, New Zealand recently after the earthquake there and would agree, the majority of the city was untouched with the epicentre being destroyed.

> The country is the global epicentre for such attacks Oh dear. So the country is the location several Km underground, that is the centre of the attacks? Why has every centre turned into an epicentre? Is "epicentre" easier to understand then "centre"?

Obviously you can never give 100% safety - if the epicentre of a big quake is right underneath your trainline you might be screwed; However that chance is really small and we already live with these kinds of risks today.

Given the literal translation: > The bread of-us the epiousion give us today And the sense of "epi" as in "outside" like epicentre and epidermis, could this be as simple as > Give us our daily crust of bread I wonder?

Also, and I am in a minority here, I don't think London has the geography or incumbent mindset to rival SV in the future - there are other places in the UK more favourable to setting up the UK's tech hub with a greater history of innovation and prospect of nurturing a startup epicentre BUT capital is even more stretched in those areas.