OT earthquakes was Re: SC - Currant history (Was Currants vs Zante raisins) Long

[Stefan li Rous]

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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