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Perhaps when they built it (before the 1971, when the first criticality was reached) 8.2 was the `largest + 200%'? Does anybody have more data?



In 1963, only 3 quakes had been recorded bigger than this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes#Largest_ear... (as SupremumLimit pointed out, analysis upgraded the quake to 9.0)




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