A hypocenter or hypocentre (from Ancient Greek ὑπόκεντρον (hupókentron) 'below the center'), also called ground zero or surface zero, is the point on the...

Nagasaki hypocentre at the age of 13; assumed office on 14 June 2017 Shigemitsu Tanaka: Exposed to radiation 6 km away from the Nagasaki hypocentre at the...

king shrine), located about 800 metres south-east of the atomic bomb hypocentre in Nagasaki, is noted for its one-legged stone torii at the shrine entrance...

(UTC+11) an earthquake with magnitude 8.1 on the Mw scale occurred at hypocentre S8.453 E156.957, 349 kilometres (217 mi) northwest of the island's capital...

newspaper Chugoku Shimbun. Matsushige was at home 2.7 km south of the hypocentre at the time of the explosion. He was not seriously injured, and determined...

Point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocentre or focus in an earthquake...

revised its 2007 estimate of Mw 9.1 to a new magnitude of Mw 9.2. The hypocentre of the main earthquake was approximately 160 km (100 mi) off the western...

The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocentre....

five USAF officers and a videographer standing at ground zero below the hypocentre and during the detonation, flash and blast. Kepler July 24, 1957 11:49:59...

struck Christchurch and the central Canterbury region at 4:35 am. With its hypocentre near Darfield, west of the city at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi),...

and was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United Kingdom. Its hypocentre was 23 kilometres (14 mi) beneath the bank, and the quake was felt in...

peak ground velocity. Earthquake energy is dispersed in waves from the hypocentre, causing ground movement omnidirectionally but typically modelled horizontally...

surface above the hypocentre) was 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-east of Culverden and 95 km (59 mi) from Christchurch. From the hypocentre associated with...

line have been analysed to show that the 2003 Aberfoyle earthquake had a hypocentre at 4 km (2+1⁄2 mi) depth and was caused by an oblique sinistral strike-slip...

solar orbit. The explosion's effect on the trees near the explosion's hypocentre was similar to the effects of the conventional Operation Blowdown. These...

today), located approximately 1.8 kilometres or 1.1 miles away from the hypocentre of the explosion. It was her first day in that mission. Around 8:15 AM...

Europe, the strongest reported in Germany to date, struck Düren. The hypocentre is judged to have been at 14–16 km. It followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake...

03:36:32 CEST (01:36 UTC). Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, with its hypocentre at a depth of 4 ± 1 km, approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia...

struck the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand at 1.42 pm on 2 March. The hypocentre was at a shallow depth of 8 km. The epicentre was 2.24 kilometres (1.39 mi)...

currently around the volcano allow volcanologists to accurately pinpoint the hypocentres of tremors and quakes. A zone in which no quakes originate is found about...

The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocentre....

powerful explosion than Tunguska and comparable to the Tsar Bomba. The hypocentre of the explosion was to the south of Chelyabinsk, in Yemanzhelinsk and...

the stern. Experts believe that this tight cluster of boilers marks the hypocentre of where the ship broke up 12,000 feet above. The rest of the boilers...

 Russia Passing through Lake Ladoga, Lake Onega and by the approximate hypocentre of the 1908 Tunguska event 61°0′N 156°5′E / 61.000°N 156.083°E / 61...

kilometres (25 mi) west of Christchurch, close to the town of Darfield. The hypocentre was at a depth of 10 km. A foreshock of roughly magnitude 5.8 hit five...

damage. The tsunami reached as far as Alaska, Chile, and New Zealand. The hypocentre was located at 52°45′N 159°30′E / 52.75°N 159.5°E / 52.75; 159.5, at...

along with its Church Crookham site. The site is now a combined focal hypocentre for both the Underwater and Information systems division. The Templecombe...

nucleation zone. Following nucleation, the rupture propagates away from the hypocentre in all directions along the fault surface. The propagation will continue...

north–northwest dipping thrust fault. Slip was mostly concentrated around the hypocentre within an elliptical slip patch measuring about 30 km (19 mi) long by...

09:00 CEST, 07:00 UTC), a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the same area. The hypocentre has been estimated at 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) below Mirandola. A series...