震源地

しんげんち【震源地】

the seismic /sáizmik/ center

hypocenter

〖C〗; focus of an earthquake〖C〗.

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しんげんち【震源地】

1 〔地震の〕 the epicenter; the seismic [earthquake] center; a centrum 《pl. ～s, -tra》; the focus (of an earthquake).

●震源地は大島付近の海底とのことである. It was reported that the center of the shock was the bottom of the sea near Ōshima Island. | Seismologists traced the epicenter of the tremor to the sea bottom off Ōshima Island.

2 〔騒動･事件の発生源〕 the center of the disturbance.

●その事件の震源地は京都であった. The incident originated in Kyoto. | Kyoto was the source of the incident.