This is 6,500 Yards, after Corot. 9,000 Yards, after Gerhard Richter.

An earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hits Japan and causes a massive tsunami.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit southeast Iran today, injuring more than 30 people.

Last May, China in the Sichuan province had a terrible earthquake, 7.9 magnitude, massive destruction in a wide area, as the Richter Scale has it.

On 22 February 2005, an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the Zarand district in Kerman province of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On 26 December 2004 a massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, followed by numerous and often severe aftershocks.

On 28 March 2005, a powerful aftershock measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale struck the west coast of Sumatra the islands of Nias, Simeulue and Banyak were the worst affected.

The supply of their paintings is known and limited. Nevertheless, the recent price frenzy extends to a significant number of living artists, led by the American Jeff Koons and the German Gerhard Richter, and extending well down the food chain.

Five weeks ago, an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale hit South Asia, causing colossal loss of life and material damage, especially in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, in Jammu and Kashmir, in India and in Afghanistan.

Brazil Celso Marcos Vieira de Souza, Paulo Roberto de Miranda Uchoa, Marcos Vinicius Pinta Gama, Carmen Lidia Richter Ribeiro Moura, Ronaldo Urbano, Paulina do Carmo Arruda Vieira Duarte, Kleber Pessoa de Melo, Denise Doneda, Maria Cristina Pimenta, Sandra Baptista Fergutzen, Maria Feliciana Ortigão, José Ivan Guimarães Lobato, Carlos Eduardo da Cunha Oliveira

The facility s robust design is similar to that of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world s largest, in Niigata, which was unscathed by the Chūetsu offshore earthquake (measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale) in July 2007. Fukushima Daiichi withstood the earthquake, but no one considered the possibility of ten meter high tsunami waves hitting a nuclear plant.

The enormous earthquake that hit the Tōhoku region on March 11, with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale and its epicenter off the coast of Sanriku, was the largest in Japan s recorded history. The number of victims and the extent of the damage remains unknown, but the human loss is expected to exceed 23,000, and economic damage is estimated to be around 25 trillion.