To: House Atreides
How can you have an earthquake with a magnitude less than zero?
To: anoldafvet
Magnitude less than zero indicates a fraction of the reference size/strength/energy. Earthquake magnitude scale is logarithmic.
22 posted on
06/29/2017 10:09:30 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
(The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
To: anoldafvet
How can you have an earthquake with a magnitude less than zero? Marry it, I guess.
27 posted on
06/29/2017 10:23:01 AM PDT by
meadsjn
To: anoldafvet
How can you have an earthquake with a magnitude less than zero? Earthquake scales are logarithmic, which mean that every step up the scale to the next number is a certain multiple of the power. The multiple turns out to be about 32. So a -1.0 would have 1/32 of the power of a 0.0 earthquake or 1/1000 of the power of a 1.0 earthquake.
To: anoldafvet
"How can you have an earthquake with a magnitude less than zero? Government-speak - It's like the federal budget, where an increase of 20% is called a "cut."
31 posted on
06/29/2017 10:27:10 AM PDT by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
To: anoldafvet
“...How can you have an earthquake with a magnitude less than zero?...”
When Hillary falls down getting into her SUV. (bada...bum)
95 posted on
06/29/2017 2:13:31 PM PDT by
johnk
(faithful with little....)
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