The word for today is…
epicentre (noun):
1 : the part of the earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
2 : centre
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :The meaning of epi- in epicentre is “over”, so the epicentre of an earthquake lies over the centre or “focus” of the quake. Epicentre can also refer to the centres of things that may seem in their own way as powerful—though not as destructive—as earthquakes. Wall Street, for example, might be said to lie at the epicentre of the financial world.
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