Re: Did anyone watch the two parter on TV; 10.5?

Skywise wrote in sci.geo.earthquakes

Theoretically, it's possible to have a mag 10 quake. In reality the
problem is finding a fault that is big enough to allow enough
slippage to equal a mag 10 quake? No, there is no known fault of
that size.

According to the NEIC the largest earthquake was 9.5 in Chile in 1960.
The Alaska earthquake in 1964 was a 9.2, and was the largest in the U.S.
The Sumatran quake that caused the tsunami was 9.0.
According to the NEIS there has never been a 10.0.

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