Where did the biggest earthquake ever recorded take place?
Rather than searching on “earthquake,” we decided to get more specific and started our search by typing “biggest earthquake” into the Yahoo! search box. It worked perfectly — the search results provided an answer faster than you can duck for cover. We glanced at the sites and quickly noticed the first one ended with the domain “.gov,” which means it’s an official government site. Once we arrived at the site, we realized we were at the National Earthquake Information Center’s FAQs. The site provided the answer… sort of. We learned the biggest earthquake since 1900 recorded with modern equipment occurred on May 22, 1960, in Chile and measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. More than 2,000 people were killed, 3,000 injured, and 2,000,000 left homeless. The temblor cau
