boeffel
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Magnitude 8.8 - OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
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To put this in perspective, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake would be one of the strongest earthquakes in measured history, placing it way ahead of the recent earthquake that took place in Haiti. The Haitian earthquake measured a 7.0 in magnitude,and has a seismic energy yield of 32 megatons, while this 8.8 earthquake measures more than 5.6 gig tons.
There aren't many earthquakes that have been measured in the history of measuring these quakes, which includes an 8.5 in Sumatra, Indonesia in 2007, a 9.2 that happened in Anchorage in 1964, a 9.5 in Chile during 1960, and a 9.0 in Portugal back in 1755.
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