Posted on 01/09/2010 4:44:46 PM PST by VRWCTexan
URGENT -- MAGNITUDE 6.5 QUAKE HITS WEST OF FERNDALE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
What about Tsunami?
I'm about 300 miles away.
The seals did know! The critters always get out of town before the earthquakes hit.
Oh yeah, I see your logarithms and raise you a wrapping function.
I felt a little rumble in San Francisco! I announced it to my family as it was happening - they felt nothing.
It gets even more complicated; technically, the “Richter scale” isn’t used at all by scientists anymore.
There are actually about 8 different types of magnitude; all use a logarithmic scale, and a given earthquake will be in the same general numerical range in the different types of magnitude, but the differences increase with larger earthquake magnitudes.
The 6.5 magnitude for this earthquake is 6.5 Mw - Moment Magnitude.
And it’s only the ground shaking that increases by 10 times for each magnitude; the energy release actually increases 32 times for each magnitude; the energy release more closely correlates with damage.
Come on down to Laplace, and we’ll transform the whole conversation.
Okay, but I’m going to eat first — I’ve been transforming my diet with a Fourier Fast.
Ouch! 32 times. Thanks Strategerist.
Thanks Strategerist.
I think I’ll join you, after I’ve had a few octals..
Looks more like the southern tip of the Cascadia Subduction Zone (monster quakes). The San Andreas ends just north of SF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
Food -- anchovies, who have moved north due to warmer El Nino water the coming earthquake.
The anchovies fled first.
This is starting to suck...I have to be in San Jose most of next week.
Lots of numbskulls in Santa Cruz... LOL!
I hope you are not anywhere near UCSC... they might protest...
Scotts Valley?
All quiet?
Did everyone pass out?
Sorry, I just have this thing for making fun of Santa Clause County...
I’m sure you understand EXACTLY where I’m coming from... Hope you’re safe... Say hello to “Vernon, Vernon, Vernon” for me...
I work in downtown SJ. In the last 3 years I’ve felt exactly 3 shakers - 2 this past week. We work on the 3rd floor so the movement is exaggerated. Still, they felt like a car going thru an unpaved parking at about 10mph. Some slow rolling and that’s it. You have nothing to worry about.
However, a Guinness at The Brit might help ease your worries! You can buy.
Nothing in San Diego......
As long as the folks down there don't mind iterators.
I leave my machine to mind that store while I'm upstairs cooking.
That’s way up Northern CA.
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