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Yesterday marked one year since a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, killing 8,000 people and injuring 21,000 more. It caused $10 billion of damage and had a magnitude of 7.5. How does that compare to the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded? According to research by the Guardian and the US Geological Survey, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded with a magnitude of about 9.5. More recent events including the 2004 earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra and the 2011 earthquake off Japan’s east coast were among the most powerful ever recorded.
1964 Alaska earthquake
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Jeeze, stay the hell out of Chile
A 7.5 is not even a god aftershock of a 9.5.
We had a pretty good jolt here in Virginia on August 23, 2011. “Only” a 5.8 but that is significant here on the east where it’s mostly bedrock–much more reverberation than a 5.8 on the west coast where the earth’s upper crust is softer.
We have quakes in the 2-3 Richter scale a few times a year and they are barely noticed. That one in 2011 was quite an experience for me. It was mid-afternoon and I could feel the house vibrate and then the windows rattled in their frames. It was over in less than a minute.
Rise Up, I was about 60 miles away (Winchester) from the epicenter (Culpepper) of that quake in Virginia in 2011. I was upstairs in my office and the administrator, who’s office was directly beneath mine, buzzed my phone and asked if the rumbling was due to me dragging my desk across the room. Now that I’m moving to Tennessee, I hope the New Madrid fault zone stays quiet for my lifetime. That could cause some serious problems if it has a seismic shift.
Great pics Administrator. Scary shit.