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2.0

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Smallest earthquake detectable by people.
Energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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Northridge, California earthquake 1994.
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Turkey earthquake August 17, 1999. More than 12,000

people killed.

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Deadliest earthquake this century. Tangshan, China,

1976. About 250,000 people died.

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years. Southern Chile 1960. Claimed 5,700 lives.

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1964

Prince William Sound, Alaska

9.1

1957

Andreanof Islands, Alaska

8.6

1899

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1899

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NAME OF
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YEAR OF
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RICHTER
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MMI
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MAX
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Imperial Valley,
California

1940

6.7 7.1

0.33g

Kern county,
California

1952

7.7

XI

0.18g

Park field,
California

1966

5.5

VIII

0.5g

Konya, India

1967

6.25 7.5

VIII

0.63g

San fernando,
California

1971

6.6

VIII

1.20g

Olympia,
Washington

1949

7.1

VIII

0.31g