So you're saying the Haiti quake was 11.4?
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
No, a 7.0 is twice as powerful as a 6.0 which is twice as powerful as a 5.0 etc etc
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
The Richter scale is logarithmic. That means that a 7.0 quake is 10 times more powerful than a 6.0 quake and 100 times more powerful than a 5.0 quake.
The Haiti Earthquake amp has a knob that goes to 11?
Less than half- actually a lot less than half. 7 is 10 times the energy released of 6. 5.6 is correspondingly less than 6.
It’s a logarithmic scale,...fractions need not apply...
The magnitude of quakes is exponential. Therefore a force 7 quake(Haiti) is 10 times stronger than a force 6 quake. That’s what he meant when he said less than half of the Haiti quake.
-1.5 6 ounces Breaking a rock on a lab table
1.0 30 pounds Large Blast at a Construction Site
1.5 320 pounds
2.0 1 ton Large Quarry or Mine Blast
2.5 4.6 tons
3.0 29 tons
3.5 73 tons
4.0 1,000 tons Small Nuclear Weapon
4.5 5,100 tons Average Tornado (total energy)
5.0 32,000 tons
5.5 80,000 tons Little Skull Mtn., NV Quake, 1992
6.0 1 million tons Double Spring Flat, NV Quake, 1994
6.5 5 million tons Northridge, CA Quake, 1994
7.0 32 million tons Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japan Quake, 1995; Largest Thermonuclear Weapon
7.5 160 million tons Landers, CA Quake, 1992
8.0 1 billion tons San Francisco, CA Quake, 1906
8.5 5 billion tons Anchorage, AK Quake, 1964
9.0 32 billion tons Chilean Quake, 1960
10.0 1 trillion tons (San-Andreas type fault circling Earth)
12.0 160 trillion tons (Fault Earth in half through center,
OR Earth's daily receipt of solar energy)
