epicenter

point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter in an earthquake
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epicenter

Summary

epicenter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (776 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • epicenter's GND ID is recorded as 4152551-6[2].
  • epicenter's subclass of is recorded as physical location[3].
  • epicenter's Commons category is recorded as Epicenters[4].
  • epicenter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/017gd3[5].
  • epicenter's PSH ID is recorded as 3968[6].
  • epicenter's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0103549[7].
  • epicenter's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • epicenter's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • epicenter's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • epicenter's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/epicentre[11].
  • epicenter's different from is recorded as hypocenter[12].
  • epicenter's Treccani ID is recorded as epicentro[13].
  • epicenter's Quora topic ID is recorded as Epicenters-geology[14].
  • epicenter's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as epicentro[15].
  • epicenter's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as episentrum[16].
  • epicenter's schematic is recorded as Epicenter Diagram.svg[17].
  • epicenter's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as epicentro[18].
  • epicenter's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 60859754[19].
  • epicenter's De Agostini ID is recorded as epicèntro[20].
  • epicenter's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/5462[21].
  • epicenter's Lex ID is recorded as epicenter[22].
  • epicenter's KBpedia ID is recorded as Epicenter[23].
  • epicenter's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C60859754[24].
  • epicenter's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 60128[25].
  • epicenter's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as epitsentr-zemletriaseniia-baae95[26].

Why It Matters

epicenter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (776 views/month).[1] epicenter has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] epicenter is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Q115150066. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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