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Originally Posted by David
Throw out the Richter computation, Tracker. Richter isn't used to compute magnitude of such big quakes. The seismic moment is computed instead, & a moment magnitude value is derived.
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Oh okay. I saw something about Mw on Wikipedia, which I assume stands for Megawatts. I believe it said that this was "7.8 Mw" - I wasn't sure if that was the same as "7.8 on the Richter scale" or not.
Anyway I just glanced at the cnn site and they seem to be focusing on the fact that there's a curfew, etc., and other "incidentals."
So I think maybe it still looks so far like it's not a mass-casualty event. That's speaking relative to Haiti, of course.