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lostloginyesterday at 4:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> A bunch of 7.X earthquakes in the ocean are not going to be hugely destructive.

New Zealand’s 5th most deadly disaster was Christchurch’s 6.2 which killed 185 people. It was a shallow aftershock from a larger, less destructive quake.

The damage was huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake


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y1n0yesterday at 5:28 PM

The key phrase in the parent is “in the ocean”

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