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Originally Posted by Caged Great
On CNN, they were saying it's an 8.8. That's nearly 20 times more powerful than the quake that hit Haiti.
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The scale is logarithmic... so it's (10^[difference in magnitude])^1.5
Haiti was a 7.0, if this was a 8.8 then (10^1.8)^1.5 = about 500 times more energy released