The place with the highest magnitude on the Richter scale took place in the Solomon Islands on January 3, 2010. Luckily, no fatalities were recorded.
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The 2011 earthquake was a 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale.
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.
No. The Richter's scale measures the magnitude or intensity of an earthquake on a scale up to ten.
It reached 7.0 on the richter scale
The Richter Scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake which is another way of describing the energy released in the earthquake.