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Перевод: epicentre

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Тезаурус:

1. Its epicentre was in the sea 19 miles from the town of Maumere, with its 70,000 inhabitants.
2. With detectors spaced 100 km apart, they found that the strength of the pulse before an earthquake depends on the distance of the detectors from the epicentre of the "quake.
3. In the epicentre of the maelstrom, with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie, surprisingly unmoved.
4. In 1989, living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake, I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes, tossed off their piers, broken-backed, red-tagged, finished.
5. Each flies the Blues flag in his own unique way, but all the while there's a perceptible epicentre, which nevertheless fights shy of any real definition
6. Predictions of the location of the epicentre are accurate to within 50-;80 km, and strength on the Richter scale has also been predicted successfully.
7. It is true that by reason of its distance from the epicentre, the Vancouver region of CBC was outside the main force of "the troubles" that beset our colleagues in eastern Canada, but we certainly suffered from the backlash, including political staff changes, cuts in programme budgets and overall policy alterations and counter-changes.
8. The height of peasant unrest in the Central Agricultural Region was reached in early September 1917; the epicentre was the Koslov uezd of the Tambov guberniia, from where the killing of landowners and sacking of estates spread rapidly to Kursk and other neighbouring gubernii.
9. In short, Broadway is now the symbolic epicentre of Manhattan's new-found reputation as the Calcutta of the New World.
10. The devastation in the city's Lake Zone, about 400 kilometres from the epicentre, was surprising even for a quake of 8.1 magnitude.
11. Setting his drama in 1988, writer-director Dehlavi makes this human tragedy the epicentre of a nation torn asunder by religious and political pressures.
12. For example, in 1692, the whole of southern England was affected by an earthquake whose epicentre was located in what is now Belgium; a good deal of minor structural damage was inflicted (Morse 1983).
13. Well, Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere, writing that Crossman's "sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him", and that "he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment".