About the quake
Do you know how big of an earth quark it was? What the total so far? 
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Hola jsarrach and welcome to the Forum!
I just heard on the radio that in the earthquake the Red Cross thinks that 45,000 - 50,000 died. 
It was 7.0 in magnitude on the Richter scale.
Apart from the name "quark", the original development of the theory was done by a grad student, George Zweig, using different terminology. Gell-Mann now says that the development of the theory was easy and the hard part was the politics of getting the theory accepted.
oh, I thought you were going to discuss quantum physics vocabulary :( :(
A quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
There are six types of quarks, known as flavors:
Quarks have various intrinsic properties, including electric charge, color charge, spin, and mass.
There was little evidence for their physical existence until 1968.
But the word itself has a curious etymological story behind it.
Murray Gell-Mann originally named the quark after the sound made by ducks. For some time, he was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word quark in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake:
*Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.*
—James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
