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Originally Posted by Fredkc
I lived there during the 1960 9.2 quake! It was a mess!
This one is now rated an 8.8.
The Richter scale is not linear in nature. a 7 is 10 times stronger than a 6, and so on.
So this quake was about 15 times stronger than the one that hit Haiti.
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Think more along the lines of
60 times stronger then the quake in Haiti.
Its almost mind boggling to think about it