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Here’s what earthquake magnitudes mean—and why an 8 can be so much scarier than a 6

Scientists no longer rely on the the Richter scale to measure an earthquake's power. Here's how earthquakes are measured, and why a 7.1 quake is worse than you might imagine.

 

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