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To: Rebelbase
If this was a 7 how many times stronger was the 9.2 in 1964?,p>I believe the Richter scale is exponential. So it is a yuge difference.
The Richter scale is logarithmic, meaning that whole-number jumps indicate a tenfold increase.
Just like the decibel scale.
37 posted on 11/30/2018 2:42:44 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

I found an explanation to my question and still confused. It said an 8 scale is 10 times stronger than a 7. So a 9.2 would be 1200 times stronger than a 7?

Or would that be 22 time stronger?

My head hurts.


38 posted on 11/30/2018 7:34:56 PM PST by Rebelbase
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