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    What makes an earthquake deadly? These are the things that matter

    by Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times Feb 07, 2023 3 minutes
    A man runs along a street strewn with debris, in Hatay, the day after an earthquake struck the country's southeast on Feb.7, 2023.- Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved frigid weather, aftershocks and collapsing buildings, as they dug for survivors buried by an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.

    The biggest earthquake to hit the U.S. since the 1960s was an 8.2 temblor near the Alaskan Peninsula on July 28, 2021.

    If you are struggling to recall the horrifying details, it's because there weren't any. No one was killed or injured in the Chignik earthquake, the seventh-largest in U.S. history. Not a single building fell. A post-quake inspection of Perryville, the closest town to the epicenter, revealed nothing more troubling than a few drywall cracks.

    There will be no such sighs of relief in the areas devastated by the that early Monday. The

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