US logs nearly 90,000 new coronavirus cases Thursday, 1 new case per second https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/us-logs-nearly-90000-new-coronavirus-cases-thursday-1-new-case-per-second/ Peak in new cases will be followed by new peaks in hospitalizations and deaths.  

Since 1981 AIDS has killed 35 million people globally. Since March of 2020 Covid has killed more than 1.3 Million people globally. Let this numbers sink in. And we are not even close to finding a cure or find way to distribute the vaccine.

There is a MASSIVE difference between 7.0 (as article headline says) and 6.7 or 6.5 reported in various places. Like a 6.7 is almost half the power of a 7.0. A base 10 log scale means that each integer is 10x more than the previous one. Reporters are super lazy about accuracy with this and it matters. A 6.7 could shake some buildings and cause some damage where a 7.0 would cause wide spread collapse of the same buildings.

Izmir, Turkey  The mayor of Izmir is talking to news outlets Main areas of destruction: Bornova and Bayrakli

Sea pulling back and dragging several ships