During the events of Batman: Cataclysm a massive earthquake struck Gotham City, the epicenter of which was less than a mile from Wayne Manor.

The city has been an epicenter for rave culture since the 1980s.

Majimboism has always had a strong following in the Rift Valley, the epicenter of the recent violence, where many locals have long believed that their land was stolen by outsiders.

Washington grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, at the time it was the epicenter of black culture in the entire Midwest ( black culture has since spread throughout the entire South Side of Chicago and the south suburbs ).

While the scam is not limited to Nigeria, the nation has become associated with this fraud and it has earned an unenviable reputation for being an epicenter of email scam crimes.

" Nevertheless, Nigeria has earned a reputation as being at the epicenter of email scammers, and the number, " 419 ", refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code ( part of Chapter 38: " Obtaining Property by false pretences ; Cheating ") dealing with fraud.

Zhejiang, however, has been an epicenter of capitalist development in China, and has led the nation in the development of a market economy and private enterprises.

Fayetteville is also the namesake of the Fayetteville shale, a geological formation which has recently become an epicenter for natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing.

Broad Avenue in Palisades Park's Koreatown has been characterized as a major epicenter of Korean American life.

As the " epicenter " of L. A .' s instrumental hip hop scene, Low End Theory has become one of the most influential venues for the ' beat music ' genre.

Although seismologists and geologists had always agreed that the epicenter was in the Atlantic to the West of the Iberian Peninsula, its exact location has been a subject of considerable debate.

" The Iraq War has become the epicenter in the global war against terrorism, and the outcome in Iraq will ultimately be a key factor in determining whether September 11, 2001 was the beginning of the end for al-Qaeda, or whether, conversely, it was just the beginning of an era of global terror that grows in both scope and duration ," Johns wrote in a May 4, 2007 essay opposing a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

The second manifestation ( with its epicenter in Coimbra, this time ) also has his participation.

It has endured a number of earthquakes: that of 1985, which measured 8. 1 on the Richter scale ; that of 1995, 7. 7 ; that of 2003, 7. 6 ; that of April 13, 2007, 6. 3 ; that of April 27, 2009, 5. 9 with epicenter in the state of Guerrero ; and that of May 22, 2009 at 14: 24, 5. 7 with a duration of 40 seconds and epicenter in Tehuacán in the state of Puebla ; that of March 20, 2012, 7. 8.

Finally, one inherent problem of the method is that, in order for any prediction to be useful, it has to predict a forthcoming earthquake with a reasonable accuracy with respect to timeframe, epicenter and magnitude.

Leupung is located at 5 ' 31 " North latitude and 95 ' 15 " East longitude at an elevation of 33 m. The population in 2004 was approximately 10, 000 ; the town has been completely obliterated by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, being one of the towns closest to the earthquake's epicenter.

Roosevelt Row, roughly bounded by 3rd Avenue to 7th Street, has reinvented itself from a blighted, drug infested area to the epicenter of the Central Phoenix art scene.

It has been said that Mosca's was the epicenter for Carlos Marcello and his many associates.

I know that the " Metro-2 " has branches that go to the suburbs so that the command could move away from the epicenter of a nuclear attack.

Though it suffers from soil leaching and erosion which has reduced the soil in some areas to a porous sandy terrain, it remains an area of rich agricultural produce and the epicenter of business trade.

The Armenian Plateau has been called the " epicenter of the Iron Age ", since it appears to be the location of the first appearance of Iron Age metallurgy in the late 2nd millennium BC.

Following the setback suffered by the insurgents in the west, the epicenter of the revolt now shifted into eastern Georgia, where, on 29 August, a large rebel force under Colonel Cholokashvili assaulted the Red Army barracks in Manglisi, on southwestern approaches of Tiflis, but was driven back by the Soviet troops which had heavily fortified all strategic positions in and around the capital.

From 1978 until 1997 there was no dispute Hong Kong was the epicenter of Chinese, not merely Cantonese, cuisine worldwide, with Chinese restaurants in mainland China and Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities, racing to employ chefs trained or worked in Hong Kong and emulating dishes improvised or invented in Hong Kong.

* December 16, 1811, 0815 UTC ( 2: 15 a. m .); ( M ~ 7. 2 – 8. 2 ) epicenter in northeast Arkansas ; it caused only slight damage to man-made structures, mainly because of the sparse population in the epicentral area.

By the Great Depression, the Glenville neighborhood had become the epicenter of Cleveland's Jewish population, with the high school reflecting the change.

When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami.

The large table gives Modified Mercalli scale intensities that are typically observed at locations near the epicenter of the earthquake.

The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.

The explosion, having the epicenter ( 60. 886 ° N, 101. 894 ° E ), is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of above the Earth's surface.

The epicenter was near Lumaco ( see map ) some south of Santiago, with Temuco being the closest large city, while Valdivia was the most affected city.

On the night of 9 January there was a large aftershock with an estimated magnitude of about 6. 25, with a possible epicenter near the Garlock Fault.

Livingston was one of the Army's large training facilities and was at the epicenter of the famed Louisiana Maneuvers.

Mandalay continues to be Burma's major trading epicenter, cultural and business networking hub for Burmese Chinese businessmen.

* 1990 – An earthquake with its epicenter in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina ( Lenin Peak ).

He writes: " Archaeology indicates that Roman Mithraism had its epicenter in Rome ... the fully developed religion known as Mithraism seems to have begun in Rome and been carried to Syria by soldiers and merchants.

* January 23 – The Shaanxi Earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China ; 830, 000 people may have been killed.

A few years after its opening Pipeline added the now legendary Combi Pool, the epicenter of many legendary contests that included such skaters as the Alba brothers Steve and Mickey, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Chris Miller and many top skateboarders of the era ... sadly enough due to insurance problems the Hoffmans had to close the Pipeline SkatePark in 1988.

As salsa grew and flourished in other countries, removed by both time and space from the New York epicenter, it adopted local sensibilities and drifted away from its Afro-Cuban moorings.

In the late 1760s, tensions between ( in a nutshell ) Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement or, as it was known, the War of the Regulation, which had its epicenter in Hillsborough.

It was a small, but vibrant community whose epicenter consisted of three blocks of Main Street around which located its churches, cafes, taverns, grocery stores, beauty parlors and barbershops and any number of local business enterprises.

A rare Michigan earthquake on September 2, 1994, had its epicenter just east of the city.

Today, just as in its past, Smethport is at the epicenter of major east coast hardwood industry and is home to the offices of forest industry giants.

The last nearby earthquake had its epicenter in Newry, South Carolina, and occurred at 7: 42 am EDT on May 19, 1971.

The November 17, 1902 Pine Valley earthquake, estimated to be a 6 on the Richter magnitude scale, had its epicenter about southeast of the town.

With its proud historic past and the place brimming with marine life, Manila Bay became the ocean portal to its epicenter for government, economy and industry.

On 8 March 2010, the area suffered another earthquake, of magnitude 5. 9, with its epicenter in Elâzığ Province, west of Bingöl.

The strongest earthquake registered in the last 30 years occurred on July 9, 1998, and had its epicenter 5 kilometers northeast of Ponta da Ribeirinha, on the island of Faial, reaching a 5. 8 magnitude.

In the late 70's / early 80's the Shore Core Punk rock scene evolved at the Jersey Shore, with its epicenter in Long Branch & Asbury Park.

The quake struck on March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was near Lone Pine, California in Owens Valley.

Because it pulls everything in the surrounding area towards its epicenter, a concentrated blast from powerful long range techniques will be automatically drawn to the black orb.

However, even this one was not felt far from its epicenter.

Famous for being the historical epicenter of Chicago's Democratic machine, and at times featured in the national spotlight for its racial intolerance, Bridgeport today ranks as one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods.

The city lives all its splendor during the Carnival celebration that lasts 4 days and 5 nights, being the headquarters city of Las Tablas Best Carnival of the republic, where one of the main attractions of the carnival in Las Tablas, are famous or culecos mojadera, which is sprayed with water ( clean and purified ) to the participants of this activity from sisternas cars ( especially pre-sterilized for this activity ) located throughout the park and surrounding streets are where the carnival, while can admire the tour of the queens of both streets, street up and down the street on spectacular floats, and suitable for this activity packed day, with the notes of the contagious and famous and well known murgas of Panama ( which also have its epicenter in the town of Las Tablas, where the best murgas the country ), do jumping and dancing for joy to young and old alike, unable to contain her joy and excitement following the queen with the most sympathetic all day without stopping or until the forces accompanying the activity takes place during four days of carnival, another attraction of this carnival is wasteful luxury and splendor of the costumes shown in the queens and their ladies, and the designs and finishes epectaculares floats of both daytime ( from culecos or mojaderas ) and evening, reaching its greatest splendor Carnival on Monday, his grace and charm of women represented in their Tableña and queens in ladies of his court to make the carnival Tableño one of the best and most famous carnavals the world.