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Old 01-27-2010, 02:50 PM  
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Originally Posted by notime View Post
These are the biggest quakes since the year 1900.
8 or bigger happen max. twice a year in the world.
Chili 22-05-1960 9.5 38.2 Z 72.6 W
Alaska 28-03-1964 9.2 61.1 N 147.5 W
Rusland 04-11-1952 9.0 52.7 N 159.5 O
Ecuador 31-01-1906 8.8 1.0 N 81.5 W
Alaska 09-03-1957 8.8 51.3 N 175.8 W
Kuril eilanden 06-11-1958 8.7 44.4 N 148.6 O
Alaska 04-02-1965 8.7 51.3 N 178.6 O
India 15-08-1950 8.6 28.5 N 96.5 O
Argentinië 11-11-1922 8.5 28.5 Z 70.0 W
Indonesië 01-02-1938 8.5 5.2 Z 130.5 O

A 7.8 killed 8500 people in China in 2008.
On july 27 in 1976 in China (Tangshan) with an 8.0 approx. 250.000 were killed.

So an 8.6 today would show up on every news site and TV station for sure.
That means it's a hoax, new is late as usual or China just died and nobody can tell it anymore. Best guess is the first, hoax. Not sure. Just a guess based on the unknown source urls.
hoax would be a bit hard to pull off, a malfunction would make a bit more sense
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