Usually, treatment of a lipoma is not necessary, unless the tumor becomes painful or restricts movement. They are usually removed for cosmetic reasons, if they grow very large, or for histopathology to check that they are not a more dangerous type of tumor such as a liposarcoma.
The world's largest earthquake with an instrumentally documented magnitude occurred on May 22, 1960 near Valdivia, in southern Chile. It was assigned a magnitude of 9.5 by the United States Geological Survey.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in northern California, which registered a 6.9 on Richter scale. Major infrastructure elements of Bay Area were destroyed or closed for an extended period, with reported damage from the quake in excess of $6 billion.