• rbos@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Better a ton of smalls than one big one. The energy released in a huge quale is several orders of magnitude so it takes a lot…

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      4 days ago

      yeah, i was in loma prieta. that was “just” a 6.9. you could see the waves in the ground, visually, dozens of miles away, until it settled. it was eerie as fuck.