| 词汇 | epicenter |
| 释义 | epicenter noun[ C ] environment, military USspecialized(UKepicentre)us/ˈep.ə.sen.t̬ɚ/uk /ˈep.ɪ.sen.tər/ the point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake or atomic explosion Geology: earthquakes & volcanic eruptions aftershock crater fault line geyser lahar magma non-volcanic phreatic pyroclastic quake seismically seismograph shock wave tectonically temblor the Richter scale tremor volcanic volcano vulcanicity epicenter | American Dictionaryepicenter noun[ C ] us/ˈep·ɪˌsent·ər/ earth science the point on the earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake: The Great Nicobar islands lie at the closest point to the epicenter of the earthquake. earth science An epicenter is also the place that has the highest level of an activity: The U.S. cannot simply assume that it will remain the epicenter of scientific research and technological innovation. Examples of epicenterepicenter We have also undertaken very intensive excavation in many of the monumental buildings and complexes that make up the site's epicenter. Royal individuals mostly lived in palaces in the epicenter. As indicated earlier, the causeways do not connect termini with each other; rather, they connect the termini with the epicenter. As in the epicenter, however, spur causeways connect elite residential groups and their associated temple-pyramids with these outlying termini. In addition to the two reservoirs in the epicenter, four wells are known in the civic or communal spaces; the rest occur within residential units. Seeing triadic interactions as the epicenter of development does not necessitate relegating cultural variability to the sidelines. The second ring of architectural nodes and termini exist at a distance of 4.5-7.5 (and possibly up to 9.5) km from the epicenter. All of the known termini from this initial ring have plazas that are as large as the major plazas in the epicenter. Sixteen of the needles derive from tombs or burials; six of these interments are from the site's epicenter. The temples in the mural represented five actual temples with serpent imagery that rested in the ceremonial epicenter of the city. The areas outside the epicenter were abandoned shortly after the destruction of the epicenter. Two injections were applied 1 mm rostral and two injections 1 mm caudal to the lesion epicenter, and one injection at each side 0.5 mm lateral to the cord midline. The causeways indicate a system that was less well geared to individual access to markets and commodities than to managing the flow of goods through the epicenter and termini. The 1906 rupture propagated both northward and southward from its epicenter for a total of about 300 mi. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The epicenter of the second major shock was slightly more to the north than the previous tremors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of epicenter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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