> A bunch of 7.X earthquakes in the ocean are not going to be hugely destructive.

New Zealand’s 5th most deadly disaster was Christchurch’s 6.2 which killed 185 people. It was a shallow aftershock from a larger, less destructive quake.

The damage was huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

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y1n0 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The key phrase in the parent is “in the ocean”

	▲	lostlogin 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I didn’t miss that. It’s a bit academic for a country like New Zealand where the sea is usually pretty close by.

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alex1138 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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