| In October an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Japan's Niigata prefecture. |
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| It was followed by four aftershocks, one of which almost matched the intensity of the first quake, registering 5.2 on the Richter scale. |
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| The quake, which registered 8.9 on the Richter scale, was eerily localized directly beneath Fenway Park, the home of the Red Sox. |
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| The earthquake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit the country on Saturday afternoon. |
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| Last September, Taiwan suffered a massive earthquake which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. |
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| On average around three tremors measuring three on the Richter scale strike the UK every year. |
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| As a political earthquake, the end of the Empire measured right at the top of the Richter scale. |
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| They were 2,1km below ground when a tremor, measuring 2,9 on the Richter scale, caused the rockfall. |
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| I had now learned to gauge her emotional moods like a seismologist reads a Richter scale. |
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| Subsequent runs gave rise to significant readings on the Richter scale, to the delight of the attendant gricers. |
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| When it came to measuring these big earthquakes, the Richter scale fell short. |
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| Seismographs and the Richter scale are just one type of graph that scientists use to measure the world. |
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| Each unit on the Richter scale represents a thirty-fold increase of energy. |
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| In the last hundred years, there have been about 20 earthquakes of 6 to 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale under the sea. |
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| Nine on the Richter scale indicates an earthquake of absolutely awesome destructive power. |
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| This was followed by a number of major aftershocks, many of which measured over 5.0 on the Richter scale. |
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| Referred to as the Saguenay earthquake, the temblor registered 5.9 on the Richter scale. |
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| An official at the meteorology and geophysics office here said the new trembler, measuring 5,7 on the Richter scale, jolted Aceh at about 11.52 am. |
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| The Richter scale of magnitude was created in 1935 by the American seismologist Charles F. Richter. |
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| On May 22nd, a seismic tremor of 6.6 on the Richter scale hit the region of Aiquile, Bolivia. |
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| On Saturday 27th February, Chile was struck by an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale. |
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| An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit the area drastically altering the lives of the whole nation. |
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| On Monday, May, 12th a disastrous earthquake, classified 8 on Richter scale, brutally hit Sichuan province in China. |
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| At 16:53:09 hours local time on January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake that measured at 7.3 on the Richter scale. |
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| On October 8, 2005, an earthquake that registered 7.6 on the Richter scale struck Pakistan and India. |
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| The first temblor on Saturday, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, hit shortly after midnight, followed by a second measuring 6.2 about seven hours later. |
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| The Richter scale was developed by seismologist Charles Richter in the 1930s to bring consistent, objective criteria to evaluating the size of earthquakes. |
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| The Boxing Day tsunami and the Sumatran earthquake on March 28, which registered 9 on the Richter scale, have made the world conscious of these massive upheavals of the Earth. |
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| Although the school canings I described yesterday were a form of child abuse that is now illegal, they would register only 1 or 2 on the Richter scale of abuse. |
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| On 16 August 1999 Turkey suffered one of the most disastrous earthquakes in the country's history, measuring approximately 7 on the Richter scale. |
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| The issues the member mentioned about the piddling amounts for other matters in British Columbia just do not rate on the Richter scale when we look at the amounts of money that are spent elsewhere. |
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| If an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale were to hit a major centre like Québec City, it would be critical for people to be able to communicate. |
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| We heard that it was an aftershock that measured 6 on the Richter scale. |
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| In a world where accounting standards generally register low on the Richter scale of political newsworthiness, they have a much higher profile now than is normal. |
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| Distraught relatives lined up yesterday at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained alleyway to identify some of those mangled and entombed in Saturday's quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. |
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| I understand from reading some recent scientific articles that the earthquake is likely to measure nine on the Richter scale, far stronger than any other earthquake that has occurred until now. |
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| At 3:02 a.m. on August 17, 1999, an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck northwestern Turkey, collapsing thousands of buildings and damaging much of the area's infrastructure. |
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| The Richter scale built on the previous, more subjective Mercalli intensity scale by offering a quantifiable measure of an earthquake's size. |
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| In the United States, the Richter scale was succeeded in the 1970s by the moment magnitude scale. |
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| It was an avalanche in lower Manhattan, reaching 2.4 on the Richter scale. |
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| It was about six or something on the Richter scale at the time. |
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| Humanitarian Action Report 2010 is going to press a few days after the devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 12 January. |
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| On 17 August 1999, a massive earthquake measuring 7.4 to 7.8 on the Richter scale struck the northwestern area of Turkey, mainly affecting the provinces of Kocaeli, Sakarya, Bolu and Yalova. |
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| Registering between 7.4 and 7.8 on the Richter scale, the earthquake leveled buildings, severely damaged roads and bridges and set fire to the country's largest refinery. |
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| In the small hours of this morning an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Italian area of the Abruzzo, causing devastation and loss of life in many towns in the region. |
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| Despite this, severe quakes such as those which struck Basel in 1356 or Visp in 1855, causing enormous damage with strengths of six and almost seven respectively on the Richter scale, could happen again at any time. |
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| On 26 December 2004, an earthquake off the western coast of northern Sumatra, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered an intensely destructive tsunami which affected 12 countries and took 186,983 lives. |
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| Nevertheless, I wasn't eager to witness a'live' landslide-especially not on Neelum Valley road, wide enough at places for only one vehicle and blocked for 47 days following the 7.6 Richter scale tremor. |
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| The notion has been kicking around since late November and the very fact that it has taken me until late January to look at it shows where it figures on my Richter Scale. |
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| After the Italians invaded during World War II, an earthquake in 1953, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale caused much damage to it and other Ionian islands. |
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