earthquake scale

基本解释

A 7.7 Richter scale earthquake virtually leveled the city of Quetta in the province of Balochistan.
这场里氏7.7级的地震几乎将俾路支省的奎达市夷为了平地。
After an earthquake of that scale the deformed fuses could be replaced in about four days—while the building remained occupied.
在经历了那种规模的地震之后，变形的保险丝在4天之内就能被替换掉——而建筑物则能继续使用。
Had an earthquake of comparable scale hit just about any other Asian country, the loss of life would almost surely have been dramatically higher.
如果是亚洲其他国家发生了级别相当的地震，那么死亡人数几乎必然会大幅攀升。
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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.
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The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
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