The quake was 7.7M and only 6 miles deep, so very close to the surface and around 16 times more energetic than the biggest quake to hit the USA in my lifetime (45 years old). There are dozes and dozens of pancaked highrise buildings in every nearby city. It's going to take DECADES just to clean up the debris from this. Miles long expansion joint bridge collapsed on EVERY segment due to about 1.5 FEET of displacement in shaking, which you coudl see the displacement in the shaking of the structures which housed survivors. They are reporting a "mass Casualty" at the pancaked hospital too. No word on exactly how many deaths yet, but I expect that number to rise as people come to realize how broad this destruction is and how total it is locally too.
For reference, every 1.0 points you go up on the Moment Magnitude scale, the quake is around 31.5 times more energetic than the previous whole number.
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