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The energy release
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was the equivalent of ten million Atom bombs
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the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima.
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And that's not the biggest earthquake ever recorded.
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No, the biggest was four years earlier
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off the coast of Valdivia in Southern Chile.
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A 9.5 on the Richter scale.
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Right there.
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This quake lasted eleven minutes and spawned a tsunami
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eighty-two feet high that leveled Hilo, Hawaii,
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eight thousand miles away.
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Eight thousand miles away.