Time magazine this morning had this article: What are the Five Strongest Earthquakes Ever Recorded? #6 was, of course, that massive Russian Kamchatka earthquake of 8.8 magnitude just experienced at 8:25AM local time on July 30. Amazingly enough, there was only one death, but this was a woman in Japan while evacuating. So there was none caused by the earthquake itself. There was another 8.8 earthquake, Chile in 2010 , which killed around 600, including 25 still missing. So there is a tie for #6. I happened to be in Amsterdam, Netherlands that day, but still wrote an article for the Huffington Post entitled Hawaii Tsunami? You can click on that link to read the whole article, but I will provide a beginning here: I'm on an around the world odyssey, which you can follow through my HuffPost postings . Well, my most exciting day is happening right in front of me watching the 8.8 Chile earthquake cataclysm on ...

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