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Originally Posted by billay
Not a joke it helps puts this quake in prospective.
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If you are talking about energy, even a relatively minor earthquake is far more powerful than the biggest nuclear weapons. If you are talking about loss of life, I would doubt that you'd have 100K+ deaths from this, which was essentially what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when you factor in radiation-associated illnesses.
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03-11-2011, 01:19 AM
HUGE ****ING EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN 8.9 MAGNITUDE FOLLOWED BY 7.5 AFTERSHOCK
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