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Tidal wave quake hit 9.0 on Richter scale: US Geological Survey LOS ANGELES (AFP) Dec 27, 2004 The US Geological Survey said Sunday that the earthquake which sparked huge tidal waves in the Indian Ocean measured 9.0 on the open ended Richter scale and was the fourth biggest quake in the past century. Don Blakeman, a senior geophysicist at the survey, said the figure had been revised up from 8.9 after the study of new data during the day. "This was a very major event, the fourth largest earthquake since 1900," Blakeman told AFP from the survey base in Golden, Colorado. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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