But a Democratic reversal here would not be an earthquake on the scale of Massachusetts.
"For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic for everyone involved, " Straw said.
For example, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, which killed 63 people, had the same Richter scale reading as the 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 100, 000 to 200, 000 in Haiti.
The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
In 1994, more than 120 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which struck in the Mascara region of western Algeria.
In a developing country like Turkey, where stringent building regulations exist but are seldom applied, and where governments have more pressing tasks than the organisation of earthquake drills, a natural disaster on this scale will unfortunately almost always kill many people.
Often, the people injured in a disaster are literally color-coded by medical workers with colored tags, says Carl Ramsay, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, who has cared for people after an earthquake, airplane crashes, and large-scale fires.
Just hours after arriving near Barcelona, the Swansea team were caught by an earthquake that measured 3.6 on the Richter scale.
The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
What is more, Lithuanian geologists have discovered that despite the fact that the Ignalina facility is built on a fault that was the site of an earthquake in 1907 of a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale it is only designed to withstand tremors of up to 5.5.
What is more, Lithuanian geologists have discovered that -- despite the fact that the Ignalina facility is built on a fault that was the site of an earthquake in 1907 of a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale -- it is only designed to withstand tremors of up to 5.5.
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