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Epicentre means that point on the earth's surface above the centre of an earthquake. To say that Mr Putin was at the epicentre of the dispute suggests that the argument took place underground.

The hypocentre, in contrast, is the place on the surface of the earth below an explosion (which at Hiroshima in 1945, for example, was 580 metres above the ground). It is the same as ground zero.



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