How to Use hypocenter in a Sentence
hypocenter
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At the speed of light, a trillion of them passed through those near the bomb’s hypocenter.
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R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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That underground starting point is known as the hypocenter or focus.
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Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2025
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Near the hypocenter, where the bomb detonated about 2,000 feet above, is a peace memorial park and museum that includes the iconic atomic dome.
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Mai Nishiyama,
NBC news,
6 Aug. 2025
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This created a fireball that bathed everything within about a two kilometer radius of the hypocenter in about 3–4,000℃ heat.
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Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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Hours before the official ceremony, as the sun rose over Hiroshima, survivors and their families started paying tribute to the victims at the Peace Memorial Park, near the hypocenter of the nuclear blast 80 years ago.
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Mari Yamaguchi,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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The schoolchildren of Minab had been close to mind in part because of my strong and difficult memories of touring the still-operational Shiroyama Elementary School in Nagasaki, which had been five hundred meters from the hypocenter.
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Christopher Hooks,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
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