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No. The second highest earthquake magnitude (depending on the source of the information) was either the Boxing Day 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (magnitude 9.1 - 9.3) or the 1964 Alaskan earthquake (magnitude 9.2).

The Haitian Earthquake in January 2010 had a Richter magnitude of 7.2.

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No, the Haiti Earthquake was large, but not as large as the Earthquake in Chile in 1960, which measured 9.5 on the Richter scale.

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