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What is the largest earthquake on record?


I am obsessed with seismology and I was curious about this. I don't believe that it was the 9.1 earthquake that hit back in 2004 off the coast of Sumatra. But I may be wrong.

On May 22, 1960 at 19:11:14 UTC, with the epicenter in Valdivia, about 700 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile the world's largest recorded earthquake struck since measurements began in 1899, the Great Chilean Earthquake.
Over 2,000 people were killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile.

The tsunami that followed caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Philippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States.

The magnitude: an Earth shaking 9.5 on the Richter Scale
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TOP 10-Location Date Magnitude2
1. Chile May 22, 1960 9.5
2. Prince William Sound, Alaska March 28, 1964 9.2
3. Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands March 9, 1957 9.1
4. Kamchatka Nov. 4, 1952 9.0
5. Off western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia Dec. 26, 2004 9.0
6. Off the coast of Ecuador Jan. 31, 1906 8.8
7. Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands Feb. 4, 1965 8.7
8. Northern Sumatra, Indonesia December 26, 2005 8.7
9. India-China border Aug. 15, 1950 8.6
10. Kamchatka Feb. 3, 1923 8.5

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763403.html

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HAARP NWO causes 9.3 massive earthquake 2nd largest in history

what was the world's largest earthquake(place,date and magnitude)?


1960/05/22, 19:11, 9.5, Chile

NEIC records these stats. See their site at:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/topics.php?areaID=13

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  1. JohnB
    Posted October 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm | Permalink

    Well, that certainly is a distinction. I never was injured by soldering during an earthquake. But then I don't live in California. Of course, we're not too far from the New Madrid fault line, which produced the largest earthquake in US history. If that one has another event like that, burning myself while soldering would probably be a relatively benign outcome.