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What was magitude and where was the most severe earthquake on the United States main land?
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In the continental United States the biggest earthquake was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It was magnitude 8.0 on the Richter scale.
The largest earthquake to hit any part of the USA was the 1964 Alaska earthquake measuring mag 9.2.
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