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1. I live in CA and am familiar with earthquakes and reading Richter Scales.

Sun Sep 3, 2017, 01:54 AM

Sep 2017

Each whole number larger is 10× the previous whole number.

It was a 6.3 earthquake in N Korea. That is 10× bigger than a 5.3 one.

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I live in CA and am familiar with earthquakes and reading Richter Scales. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1