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Re:Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru by jeffm3 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:02AM (#20014697)
8.0+ earthquakes are quite unique, there's on average only one 8.0+ earthquake per year. [1]

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/stats.php

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Re:Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru by dghughes on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:20PM (#20015677)
I can't even comprehend the amount of energy required for an 8.0M earthquake.

From searching it seems an 8.0M earthquake is equivalent to a nuclear explosion of 6,270,000 tons of TNT but a 7.0M is 199,000 tons of TNT.

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Re:Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru by audi0slave on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:50PM (#20015853)
yes, it's log scale
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