Congrats to the peeps in California for building infrastructure that can [View all]

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handle a serious quake. Sure there was damage but I haven't heard of any deaths so far.

Both the 2010 7.0 in Haiti and the 6.3 that hit Christ Church New Zealand in 2011 were weaker than last night's 7.1 quake in California

With approximately 3 million people affected, this earthquake was the most devastating natural disaster ever experienced in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Roughly 250,000 lives were lost and 300,000 people were injured. About 1.5 million individuals were forced to live in makeshift internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. As a result, the country faced the greatest humanitarian need in its history.

At 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused severe damage in Christchurch and Lyttelton, killing 185 people and injuring several thousand. The earthquake’s epicentre was near Lyttelton, just 10 km southeast of Christchurch’s central business ...

And the science based discussions coming from Cal Tech on KTLA are refreshing.