It is now thought to have measured 9.0, making it the biggest quake since the huge tremor of magnitude 9.2 in Alaska in 1964, whose resulting tsunami struck mostly thinly populated regions and thus killed only 132 people.
It is now thought to have measured 9.0, making it the biggest quake since the huge tremor of magnitude 9.2 in Alaska in 1964, whose resulting tsunami struck mostly thinly populated regions and thus killed only 132 people.
目前测量认为约为里氏9.0级，是从1964年阿拉斯加9.2级以来最大的地震，而阿拉斯加地震引发的海啸由于袭击的大多为人口稀少地区，因此仅造成了132人死亡。