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The Richter scale assesses the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1964 Alaska earthquake as both being of magnitude 8.3.However,on the moment magnitude scale,the San Francisco earthquake is probably equivalent to a Richter magnitude 7.8 and the Alaska seism is equivalent to a 9.2.The Alaska earthquake was at least 100 times bigger.
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