earthquake
- In the United States between 1975 – 1995, there were only four states without earthquakes: Florida, Iowa, North Dakota, Winconsin
- Alaska is the most earthquake prone zone in the world
- Earthquakes also occur on the moon (“moonquakes”)
- The world’s deadlist earthquake was in central China in 1556, killing 830,000 people
- On the Richter scale, 1.0 is equivalent to a construction site blast while 5.0 is equivalent to the Nagasaki atomic bomb. The Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 stood at 9.3
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