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Chile Quake Shifted Earth's Axis

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SanFranciscoZionist3/02/2010 12:58:07 pm PST

re: #8 aceofwhat?

The log10 base of the richter scale can understate these things. An 8.8 is 100 times more powerful than the Haiti quake. My mind is having trouble wrapping around a magnitude like that…

I’ve been in something the size of the Haiti quake. I cannot imagine what an 8.8 is like.