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Hasn’t been for 15 years here in the west.

I know there is another scale, the scale MW but it doesn't diminish the importance of earthquakes as you said, in fact, it adds more magnitude levels because the Richter scale couldn't measure above 7 disasters.

The magnitude of this earthquake has been huge, there is a fracture of 200km long in Turkey as result of it, nothing similar to a 4.5 earthquake.

Of course it doesn’t, I didn’t suggest it did. Just making a note that 99% of people don’t know this.I simply made a factual statement the number would be much lower on old scale. I didn’t in anyway question how horrible this event was at all. Especially knowing it was made worse on purpose by USA technology.