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certainly this is a very serious event, and my heart goes out to the people who are affected. this is certainly not an area that has felt earthquakes before. it s a seismojennic area. it s a very large fault zone. but it s a larger earthquake than they ve experienced anytime in recent memory. how common are these types of quakes of a magnitude of 7.8? well, i think the most recent example that you might use for a comparison was not exactly on this fault system but was nearby on a neighboring fault system in turkey was in 99. that was a 7.6. so it s a little bit smaller but has a similar depth. the magnitude of shaking that is felt at the surface is both a function of the amount of energy that s released, or the size of the earthquake, but also how far that energy is released below the surface.

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