Jose A. Carillo
Jose A. Carillo

In last week’s column, I critiqued the shock-and-awe English of the Bohol earthquake news reportage by two major Metro Manila dailies. I took issue with their directly equating the 7.2-magnitude earthquake with 32 Hiroshima atomic-bomb explosions. I do think that like comparing apples and pears, it’s logically untenable to draw equivalence between an earthquake’s seismic energy and the power of so many nuclear blasts.

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