The largest earthquake recorded in history, 9.5 on Richter scale, happened in 1960 in what country?

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Here is a list of quakes. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001439.html First Place Honors 9.5 The honor of greatest earthquake of all time goes to the 1960 Chile earthquake because scientists were able to catch this one on tape. In other words, there have been a lot of really big earthquakes throughout human history (and even greater ones before we came on the scene), but this one they were able to measure, record and verify its ground motion strength. The instruments that seismologists use to measure earthquake magnitudes are designed to detect the amount of energy released by the movement of the ground during a quake. In the case of the Chile earthquake, the amount of energy released during the quake, not the number of human deaths and damage to structures, earned it the title of greatest. http://www.extremescience.com/GreatestEarthquake.htm Mar 09 06, 8:13 AM

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The largest earthquake recorded in history (9.5 on Richter scale) happened in 1960 in what country? When was the last earthquake in the UK and how big was it on the Richter scale? Who, along with Beno Gutenberg, devised the scale of earthquake strength which now bears his name? What was the largest recorded earthquake to have hit the Eastern USA? If two earthquakes are a point apart on the Richter scale, then the one with the higher reading is ten times as powerful as the other. Suppose that two earthquakes differ by half a point. How much more powerful is the one with the higher reading?

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