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Originally Posted by kennyc
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But then again ...
Scientists have said the earthquake ranked as the fifth-largest in the world since 1900 and was nearly
8,000 times stronger than one that devastated the city of Christchurch in New Zealand last month. "The
energy radiated by this quake is nearly equal to one month's worth of energy consumption" in the United States, Brian Atwater of the US Geological Survey told the Associated Press.