Posted on 01/15/2010 10:24:26 AM PST by Ready4Freddy
no - it’s a logarithmic scale, so it’s too complicated for me to figure out; but the short of it is that twice the strength would NOT be 11.4
You can’t really compare the earthquake in Eureka to the earthquake in Haiti.
In Eureka, no one was killed, and mostly minor damage. Our country is built to withstand huge earthquakes. I was in the Loma Prieta earthquake, and it was bigger than the one in Haiti. It was nothing like the images we are seeing from Haiti.
I guess Chavez was wrong about smelling El Diablo near President Bush. It was himself he smelled.
May the only destruction be the collapse of the Presidential Palace and only 1 casualty.
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Exactly! Let’s hope there’s a huge boulder with his name on it!
No, a 7.0 is twice as powerful as a 6.0 which is twice as powerful as a 5.0 etc etc
You know...in the old days of Israel...the Israelites...stoned the prophets when they didn’t like what they heard or didn’t agree with it...it appears nothing has changed must...bring out the stones.
Telesur is reporting it as a magnitude 5.4, with no reports yet of damages or victims.
I wondered that too, having visited the city back in '81.
“NO AID! Not to that dipshti Chavez.”
We gave at the pump...
I counted yesterday, and they have had AT LEAST 31 AFTERSHOCKS between 3.0 and 6.0
You are right, of course. It was a stretch for a dumb joke. Shoulda had a sarcasm tag.
Agreed. No aid to Venezuela!
chevie couldn’t possibily ask for help from the big satan
I’m sure his bud, imanutjob is sending help.
Actually the Haiti quake was 10 times greater than the new quake. The richter scale is not linear in power, it is expotential.
Here is a graphic that may help...
http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/publications/maps/earthquakes/images/RichterScale.gif
Paging Danny Glover!!! Global warming strikes again.
5.6 2010/01/15 18:00:49 10.421 -63.495 11.7 SUCRE, VENEZUELA
I was just looking at images from Haiti. I just can’t take it lightly. It’s too devastating.
The Richter Scale is a base-10 logarithm. Each increase of 1 point on the Richter Scale represents a 10-fold increase in magnitude. I think an earthquake of 5.9 would be about twice the magnitude of a 5.7. Back-of-the-envelope estimation.
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