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.
Nepal-size earthquake in California could kill 1,800, study found. One of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires killed more than 3,000 people and left the city in ruins. The quake's magnitude has been estimated in recent years at 7.7 to 7.9.