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20041226 Sunday December 26, 2004
8.9 Earthquake Hits Asia Life

The most powerful earthquake in 40 years struck off Indonesia at 8am Sunday, local time. The quake triggered multiple tsunamis that are flooding large parts of the area. Hundreds, maybe thousands, are dead. I'm in shock watching some of this video.

[Update: Sadly, the death toll has risen dramatically. I added one more news link]

Here are some news links:

Those of us from California are well aware of the Richter scale and know that 8.9 is huge. Huge! For those who don't know, the scale is logarithmic, so 7.0 is ten times more powerful than 6.0, 8.0 is ten times more powerful than that. So, 8.9 is almost 1000 times as powerful as a 6.0 earthquake.
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