The Australian
Quake upgraded to 9.0December 27, 2004
From correspondents in Los Angeles
...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.
The worst earthquake since 1900 was a 9.5-magnitude quake in Chile in 1960, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Two earthquakes in Alaska, in 1957 and 1964, and one in Russia's Kamchatka region in 1952, ranked 9.0 or above. The Kamchatka temblor also measured 9.0 on the Richter scale....
