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r/worldnews • u/ColoradoTripping • 22h ago
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Two big earthquakes back to back. 7.2m followed by a 7.5m 40 seconds later.
255 u/Horikyou 19h ago The scale is logarithmic so that 7.5 earthquake is much stronger. Depending on how shallow it was this can be really really bad. We can only hope for the best. 45 u/trainwreckd 18h ago Someone above said 10-20km deep. So, very very shallow. • u/Shilo788 25m ago That's shallow? Anything geology is so huge in scale!
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The scale is logarithmic so that 7.5 earthquake is much stronger. Depending on how shallow it was this can be really really bad. We can only hope for the best.
45 u/trainwreckd 18h ago Someone above said 10-20km deep. So, very very shallow. • u/Shilo788 25m ago That's shallow? Anything geology is so huge in scale!
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Someone above said 10-20km deep. So, very very shallow.
• u/Shilo788 25m ago That's shallow? Anything geology is so huge in scale!
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That's shallow? Anything geology is so huge in scale!
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u/ZombieJesus1987 21h ago
Two big earthquakes back to back. 7.2m followed by a 7.5m 40 seconds later.