boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe Global South is the epicenter of poor air quality, which suffocates and kills the most vulnerableenglish.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down15
arrow-up1186arrow-down1external-linkThe Global South is the epicenter of poor air quality, which suffocates and kills the most vulnerableenglish.elpais.comboem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·1 year ago epicenter I do not think it means what you think it means.
minus-squareTocano@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoEpicentre - (formal) the central point of something edit: spelling
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoThe epicenter is not the center; it’s a point above the center. It’s from seismology. An earthquake’s origin is beneath the earth’s surface. The epicenter is the point on the surface that’s directly above the origin point.
minus-squareTocano@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoYes, it is used like that. However, not just in english, but in many languages, epicentre is sometimes used with the meaning of “centre of something”.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Epicentre - (formal) the central point of something
edit: spelling
The epicenter is not the center; it’s a point above the center. It’s from seismology. An earthquake’s origin is beneath the earth’s surface. The epicenter is the point on the surface that’s directly above the origin point.
Yes, it is used like that. However, not just in english, but in many languages, epicentre is sometimes used with the meaning of “centre of something”.
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