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"chillean earthquake was 80 times stronger than the Haitian quake, based on 7.0 for Haiti and 8.8 for Chille"
Wrong.
The Earthquake in Chile was 819 times stronger than the one in Haiti.
Haiti measured 7.0 in the Moment magnitude scale (which is the ONLY scale used to measure quakes these days. The Richter scale has not been used since the 70's...) while Chile measured 8.8. This is a Logarithmic scale which grows exponentially. Thus, a quake measuring 7.0 is 32 (not 10) times stronger than one measuring 6.0, and so on...
So, 8.0 is 32 times stronger than 7.0; and 8.8 is 25.6 times stronger than 8.0.
32 x 25.6 = 819.2
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How big was the 2010 earthquake in Chile?
The 2010 earthquake that hit Chile was a magnitude 8.8.
How was the Haiti earthquake managed?
they got shelter box to give them tent and other things in a big box. hope this helps
How big is Chile in kilometers?
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How big was the japan tsunami?
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What are the biggest earthquakes ever recorded?
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There was a big earthquake in 2010 in Haiti. The earthquake was 7.0
How big was the 2010 earthquake in Chile?
The 2010 earthquake that hit Chile was a magnitude 8.8.
How big was he haiti earthquake?
a magnitude of 7.0
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The earthquake in Haiti wasn't actually so big ("only" 7.0 magnitude), but caused over 220,000 deaths.
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Because in 1960 there was a big earthquake
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yes, because haiti had a big earthquake recently.
How big is the country Chile compared to the us?
hki
What happened after the earthquake?
it depends witch earthquake your talking about... but i think that if it was a big earthquake then they'D probably die like in japan and in haiti
How big was the tsunami in the haiti earthquake of January 12 2010?
it was 45 feet
How big was the largest earthquake in the world?
The one in Chile measuring 9.5 magnitude.
What was the haiti earthquake ranked?
I believe the January 10th 2010 Haiti earthquake was the 18th largest in the records.It was magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter Scale. It had the energy of a 32 million tons of TNT.To put that into perspective. It was 500 times less than the mag 8.8 earthquake to hit Chile on Feb, 27 2010 (15.8 billion tons of TNT) and 2,000 times less than the mag 9.1 Indian Ocean earthquake of December 26, 2004 (90.7 billion tons of TNT).One aftershock of the February 27th 2010 Chile earthquake at 08:01 GMT was almost as big as Haiti at mag 6.9.The largest earthquake on record was also just off the coast of Chile about 100 miles south of the 2010 one on May 22nd 1960. It was mag 9.5 earthquake and was 5,500 times bigger at 178 billion tons of TNT.
