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One witness, Macarena Railef, said the force of the quake was overwhelming even far from its epicentre.

The euro area, he said, was currently its epicentre, and the consequences could be much worse than anything seen so far.

New York was the epicentre of this year's credit crisis, and that does not help its status as a financial centre.

Chile was also luckier that the quake's epicentre was much deeper down in the earth than in Haiti, mitigating its destructive power.

Far from the epicentre of power in Bangkok, grass-roots governance is beginning to flourish.

I do not know what the epicentre of the next crisis will be, except that it is unlikely to involve structured debt products.

Far from the epicentre of power, grass-roots governance is beginning to flourish.

For a few years it seemed to be the capital not only of Britain but perhaps of the world too: the epicentre of globalisation.

The battle with Buganda will remain the epicentre of opposition to an extension of his rule, but other factors add to his troubles.

Since the US was the epicentre of the financial crisis, the relatively small decline in output is remarkable.

The US geological survey said the quake had a magnitude of 8. 9, with an epicentre about 130 kilometres off Japan's east coast.

At least one civilian was killed in Rastan and two more in the southern province of Deraa, an epicentre for recent protests, activists said.

"Whilst Asia was not the epicentre of the crisis it has been hit hard, " said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director, last week.

One of the worst-hit areas appears to be Beichuan county, part of the Mianyang city municipal area, about 50km from the epicentre .

China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has flown to the epicentre to see relief work , having met survivors elsewhere .

Only Spain can really be described as an epicentre country, and of course the US and the UK had far greater systemic importance.

One of Sichuan's worrisome "quake lakes" , formed when landslides block a river, is also near the aftershock's epicentre in Hongguang.

When an earthquake is detected, the software immediately looks at the size of the tremor and the location of its epicentre.

A few even bought train tickets or drove off in the opposite direction to New York, the supposed epicentre of the alien invasion.

Meanwhile, stress in the credit markets, the epicentre of the financial crisis, intensified as investors fled to save government securities.

It threatens to become "the second epicentre of the global financial crisis" , this time unfolding in Europe rather than America.

From all around the dam area, Chinese soldiers are launching their assault on the epicentre .

One family in Darfield, near the epicentre of the quake, reported spending the night under their dining table.

In Sendai, the city largest near to the quake epicentre, the waves swept through the car park of the airport and engulfed buildings.

Authorities said as many as 10, 000 people remained unaccounted for in just one of the cities near the epicentre, Mianzhu.

But, as I discovered during a four-day journey through the epicentre of the disaster, that is not the full story.

The combination of excessive leverage and mortgage securitisation were at the epicentre of the US subprime crisis.

With over two billion views a day, it's become the epicentre of a video advertising boom.

Geographic and cultural distance from the epicentre should give some protection, as should economic dynamism and competent governance.

In Yingxiu, close to the Sichuan earthquake's epicentre, he paid tribute to Beijing's efforts.

There were reports of many deaths in the Indonesian island of Nias, south of the earthquake's epicentre .

Rich people are less tied than they once were to their wealth managers in Zurich's banking epicentre.

He was two miles from the epicentre of the blast, in a rain of flaming scraps of paper and clothes.

In Beichuan, a mountain town closer to the epicentre, more than 1, 000 pupils are believed to have perished at the Number One middle school.

"Banks have been at the epicentre of a storm of rage" .

The connection, of course, is that Clark contrived to be an outsider even at the very epicentre of power.

The epicentre of the most lethal and destructive earthquake in Italy for almost 30 years lay a few kilometres outside the city.

MalcolmMoore Almost there. Still very few signs of devastation outside epicentre. Passing through towns that are largely intact.

Collapsing US house prices are the epicentre of the global crisis.

It is worth remembering that the epicentre of the 2008 disaster was American property, hardly a free market undistorted by government.

Britney originated from The Disney Club, Disney being at the epicentre of Monarch Programming.

The leader of the march has called Ciudad Juarez the "epicentre of pain" due to the levels of violence there.

The Arctic is at the epicentre of climate change.

Resistance to artemisinins was confirmed in 2009 in the Greater Mekong subregion, the traditional epicentre for drug-resistant malaria.

Officials are worried about damage to dams upriver from Dujiangyan, closer to the epicentre.

Some experts view Asia as the new epicentre for the diabetes epidemic.

Two people were seriously injured by the first tremor, whose epicentre was further away and deeper.

Waves will spread from the epicentre of the 8. 8 quake in central Chile and may strike land bordering the Pacific in the next 24 hours.

Officials suggested the situation closer to the epicentre could be even worse.

Its epicentre was reported to be about 30 miles offshore from Padang, at a depth of about 53 miles.

The epicentre was in Wenchuan County, some 90km northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.

The earthquake's epicentre was just 15 kilometres from Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince, home to around 1 million people.

Apparently we're sitting at the epicentre of the world clash of civilisations.

STEPHEN MCDONELL: Well I'm walking along the road to Wenchuan which was actually the epicentre , the worst hit area of the quake.

The epicentre of weakness in global equities remains financials.

Its epicentre was at Prince William Sound, some 100 miles to the east, but Anchorage took a big hit.

The epicentre of the day's celebrations was London's Chinatown.

A five-member WHO team, including Mr Gibbs, visited health facilities at the Chinese earthquake's epicentre in Sichuan province.

On the road to the epicentre we don't find many buildings left standing.

Kesennuma, located 300 miles north-east of Tokyo in Miyagi prefecture, was near the epicentre of the magnitude 8. 9 earthquake.

We are the epicentre of this global crisis.

In Sendai, a north-east city of 1m closest to the undersea quake's epicentre, power remained cut off late on Friday.

Clinton has been at the epicentre of international politics, and in the full glare of the global media, for some 20 years.

The roads towards the epicentre are clogged with such convoys.

With the epicentre only 20km from the central city and the quake only 10km deep, the whole city got a mighty shaking.

If the epicentre is on the seabed, that also lifts the water above the bed, creating a wave.

The epicentre was 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile's second largest city, with a population of about 670, 000.

The epicentre of this one was in the west.

Paris is the epicentre of the fashion world.

shanghai is the glittering epicentre of china's economy boom.

Around 900 children were trapped after their school collapsed about 60 miles from the epicentre in Sichuan province.

Even 18 months ago, Kano was the global epicentre of type 1 polio.

Buildings swayed in Bangkok, 500 miles (800 kilometres) south of the epicentre.

The government said it was sending medical teams to Tasikmalaya, a town in west Java about 70 miles from the epicentre.

In Uige Province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak, 266 cases, of which 246 have been fatal, were reported as of 28 April.

Inevitably, the focus is on the US, epicentre of the crisis and the world's largest economy.

However, an initial tsunami warning was issued for local coasts within 100 kilometres of the epicentre at 22: 03 UTC.

I wonder how far we are away from the epicentre.

Officials say there is no news yet from the towns at the epicentre, which have a total population of more than 24, 000.

In Uige Province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak, 250 cases, of which 228 were fatal, were reported as of 20 April.

The epicentre of the quake was 115km (70 miles) north-east of Concepcion and 325km (200 miles) south-west of the capital Santiago.

At its epicentre is the 17-nation eurozone.

The first epicentre was 295km (180 miles) north-northwest of Vanuatu's largest island, Santo, at a depth of 35km (21. 7 miles).

Flood waters pour out of newly-built houses in Yingxiu town - the epicentre of the Sichuan earthquake

Development and Application of Series of Bits to Drilling Geophysical Prospecting Epicentre Hole in Hostile Stratum

The US is the epicentre of the current economic storm: it is there that the subprime crisis began;

In the towns and villages around Mianyang, 32km from the epicentre, residents had received basic supplies

Investigation for intensity of epicentre area of M4. 1 Earthquake in Lixin County of Anhui Province