OT earthquakes was Re: SC - Currant history (Was Currants vs Zante raisins) Long
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 24 02:25:37 PDT 2000
- --- 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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