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How much more energy was released by the earthquake in china than the one in haiti

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The Haiti earthquake was magnitude 7, which releases the energy equivalent of several nuclear bombs. The United States Geological Survey estimates magnitude 7 as equivalent to about half a million tons of high explosive.14 Jan 2010

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