Posted on 01/17/2010 2:30:27 PM PST by B-Chan
Lets not lose sight of the fact that the Richter Scale is base 10 logarithmic. The Richter rating is obtained by calculating the logarithm (base-10) of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer. So an earthquake that measures 7.0 (Haiti 2010) on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude four times larger than one that measures 6.6 (Northridge 1994).
The energy release of an earthquake (which closely correlates to its destructive power) scales with the 3⁄2 power of the shaking amplitude. Thus we have a power difference(10^(7.0-6.6))^(3/2)or about 3.98107 or about a 400% increase in power released by the Haiti quake compared to Northridge quake as a baseline. Not really even close to equal.
Regards,
GtG
I’m glad you found our Northridge Earthquake experience funny. I didn’t see much humor in it myself: I was buried in the contents of my office, and my wife sustained third-degree burns during our clamber over the rubble surrounding our building as we ran for our lives through the pre-dawn darkness. We both had to be treated for PTSD later as well. Yeah, what a laff riot that was.
We lived in Sherman Oaks, 6.29 miles from the epicenter, and there were collapsed buildings and dead people all over the neighborhood due to soil liquifaction. I’m happy you had a laugh wherever you were on that day.
We have come to the same conclusion. As I watched the tragedy in Haiti and thought about the many problems of the nation, I began to realive that we are developing our own Haiti in Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans. A large part of the African-American population is rejecting Christian culture and reverting back to African culture. A majority of black kids do not have a father in their lives. You just cannot maintain anything that resembles a normal society under those circumstances but the only thing we get is silence and denial from the liberal leadership. Even conservatives are afraid to say anything.
It’s the culture stupid!
RE: “We ‘lived through” Northridge, too, and it was by no means major. What happened then cannot be compared to what happened in Haiti.”
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I had a condo 2 miles from the epicenter — it was destroyed. Did you never see all the photos of the gas caused fires, explosions, ‘pancaked’ buildings with floors that fell onto each other, killing many and injuring more?
Did you not see the multitudes from various types of housing, displaced and camping out in public parks for WEEKS? I could not get back into my totally rebuilt condo for 1.5 years. It had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Structures all over the city of L.A. and parts of Ventura County were affected — Brentwood/Santa Monica, Simi Valley, parts of Thousand Oaks, Hollywood and most of the San Fernando Valley suffered damage from ‘cosmetic’ to severe. Stores were trashed; all goods were ruined and on the floor, glass broken everywhere, no electricity and streets lights out for days.
And you think this was NOT major? It WAS major! No one other than you disputes that.
I have been to Haiti — it is a sewer, fraught with problems unfixable by foreign aid unless the entire place is torn down and a decent government installed. There are plenty of good people in Haiti but the government is 100% corrupt and many people are criminals. I have been to the Caribbean some 25 times and visited most islands — Haiti is far and away the worst — and the people/victims there - and their infrastructure - were not prepared for this disaster.
Sounds like pure horshit double talk to me.
It’s nothing to do with religion, and robertson is a fool, yet it’s voodoo that is the problem(which is their religion).
Whatever.
They’re messed up, their economy is pathetic. Their government is a joke. And they worship satan. Why should I listen to this quack that says robertson is a quack?
“Mysterioso” may or may not have been near anything damaged by the Northridge quake but he/she certainly was not paying attention if he/she did not see the horror all around afterwards.
I was 2 miles from the epicenter and lucky to get out of my condo alive. Many in our complex were severely injured. We lost the whole building and were out that day, of course, unable to return for 1.5 years until the entire complex was rebuilt. Yeah, it was a real lark, wasn’t it?
Sounds to me like Mysterioso is one of those who hates CA and wishes we would all crash into the Pacific.
Merely surviving winter is an unattainable feat for some of the less advanced societies. If there were any Haitians left after 10 years I would be surprised.
My interest in earthquakes goes back to the 1952 Kern County event that shook the hell out of us in San Fernando. I've got many books on seismology. I've got the complete report on Northridge. And I say that it was not a major earthquake.
If only I were a rough, tough macho man like your mom is.
She was 84, you schmuck.
I think it is the people....there seems to be some well spoken Haitains but mostly they don’t seem to think beyond what’s for supper.....
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