1. London became the epicentre of the world fashion industry.

2. The earthquake had its epicentre two-hundred kilometres north-east of the capital.

3. The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire, but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area.

4. Worse still[http://], the epicentre of labour militancy was the capital itself.

5. A star marks the epicentre of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945.

6. Its epicentre was in the sea 19 miles from the town of Maumere, with its 70,000 inhabitants.

7. The epicentre of the nation's in decision encompasses a group of states in its heartland, around the Great Lakes.

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

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

10. Don't forget that all communication at the epicentre also been cut.

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

12. Soldiers have began to reach the isolated epicentre by helicopter.

13. The epicentre was two hours away from the capital Lima where I live.

14. The first epicentre was 295km (180 miles) north-northwest of Vanuatu's largest island, Santo, at a depth of 35km (21.7 miles).

15. Seismologist Barry Hull said a magnitude 7 quake with an epicentre within a 50km radius of Melbourne's CBD would cause extensive structural damage, particularly to older buildings up to four storeys.

16. It all adds up to a simulacrum of French village life – but without the tedium, because you are in the epicentre of civilisation.

17. Suddenly , Chicago, Obama's adopted home , had became the epicentre of change.

18. First posted 17 November 2008, this column's analysis is more relevant than ever. It asks why investors rush to government securities when the US was at the epicentre of the financial crisis?

19. The observations of seismologists at the BGS suggest both things: more thrust in the SW, nearer the epicentre, and more strike-slip toward its direction of propagation, the NE.

20. Another man from Temuco, around 200 miles from the epicentre, told local television: "Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it's like the end of the world."