Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2004
AFTER THE DELUGE
Amazing:
The underwater quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey put at magnitude 9.0, was the biggest since 1964, when a 9.2-magnitude temblor struck Alaska, also touching off tsunami waves. There were at least a half-dozen powerful aftershocks, one of magnitude 7.3.
Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy’s National Geophysics Institute, likened the quake’s power [...]

