One measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, a major tremor in its own right.
In Shizuoka some 100 kilometers to the west, the latest quake measured 6.4 on the Richter scale.
One shook the Ibaraki Prefecture mid-morning Monday registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale, Kyodo news reported.
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In 1996, China carried out a nuclear explosion at its Lop Nor nuclear testing ground measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale.
While we were there this afternoon there was a massive aftershock that measured about 5 on the Richter scale.
It is designed to withstand earthquakes of up to 7.5 on the Richter scale and cost 600 million francs.
This one, which registered 8.7 on the Richter scale (the original one was 9.3), was simply the biggest by far.
The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
Just hours after arriving near Barcelona, the Swansea team were caught by an earthquake that measured 3.6 on the Richter scale.
In 1992, two earthquakes, including the third strongest in the U.S. this century at 7.4 on the Richter scale, rocked southern California.
Whaaat? 0.5 on the Richter scale is, as Andrew Orlowski pointed out, about the same amount of energy as a hand grenade going off.
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In 1994, more than 120 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which struck in the Mascara region of western Algeria.
Twenty years ago it was a run-down city in a developing country which barely registered on the economic Richter scale, let alone as a global hub for air travel.
For example, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, which killed 63 people, had the same Richter scale reading as the 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 100, 000 to 200, 000 in Haiti.
East Coast residents who thought they were immune from earthquakes got a jolt of reality today from a quake centered in Virginia and measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale.
The explosion itself was "decoupled" so as to reduce the chances that even nearby seismic monitoring stations would pick up and recognize the resulting tremor, which registered 2.7 on the Richter scale.
The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
For example, it is some hundredths (yes, the Richter Scale is a logarithmic one, so 0.5 is hundreds of times smaller than 3.0, which is the level at which you might actually feel something on the surface) of the level at which a human being might even note an earthquake.
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What is more, Lithuanian geologists have discovered that despite the fact that the Ignalina facility is built on a fault that was the site of an earthquake in 1907 of a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale it is only designed to withstand tremors of up to 5.5.
What is more, Lithuanian geologists have discovered that -- despite the fact that the Ignalina facility is built on a fault that was the site of an earthquake in 1907 of a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale -- it is only designed to withstand tremors of up to 5.5.
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