[Elsie]

But the energy is never seen in a newspaper report.
AFAIK

BTW; enough data to last us a lifetime...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/

[4yearlurker]

Is it true that a tsunami wave can only be as tall as the water is deep?

[sagar]

“But the energy is never seen in a newspaper report.
AFAIK”

Energy released is far more relevant to an earthquake’s power than the unit-less value like 10^8. In Japan, they don’t even use the magnitude, but have their own shindo scale, which measures earthquake’s actual impact/effect.