I know it's late but... 42 years ago today

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I know it's late but... 42 years ago today

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The worst natural disaster (well until Katrina) in US history. This was

worse than the quake of '06... but it's often forgotten...





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I know it's late but... 42 years ago today

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Whoever worked out "The shock was roughly equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT exploding -- or the force of about 63,000 atomic bombs the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima" exaggerated by an order of magnitude.
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