OT earthquakes was Re: SC - Currant history (Was Currants vs Zante raisins) Long
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Wed Jun 21 23:16:37 PDT 2000
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.
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