The earthquake registered 3 on the Richter scale.

地震震级为里氏3级。

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An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck California yesterday.

昨天加利福尼亚发生了里氏6.1级地震。

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The earthquake registered 5.7 on the Richter scale.

这次地震显示为里氏5.7级。

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But a Democratic reversal here would not be an earthquake on the scale of Massachusetts.

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"For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic for everyone involved, " Straw said.

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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.

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