SC - Re: Kuskenole - was, Authenticity, philosophy, and advocacy

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> Huette  said: 
> > And by the way, a 5.0 earthquake is twice as
> strong as
> > a 4.0.  A 6.0 is twice as strong as a 5.0 and 4
> times
> > as strong as a 4.0.  Or that is what a
> seismologist
> > from Caltech once told me.
> 
> Are you sure about these numbers? For some reason I
> was thinking
> that a 6.0 was ten times as strong as a 5.0. A 5.0
> ten times as
> strong as a 4.0 etc. A log scale? Of course either
> would be non-
> linear.
> 
> -- 
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad   

It has been 18 years since I last worked at Caltech
and had this conversation.  I could be wrong.

Huette

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