On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote:
> ya ;) I wondered last time if the lack of injuries was due to everyone being
> so relaxed. I mean -- 6.9 vs what was Haiti, 7.0? But it helps to have a
> building code, apparently, and enough money around to build the buildings
> right ;)

Money and building codes to help, but the Richter Scale is logarithmic
so their 6.9 was roughly 10 times worse than your 5.9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale

-Cameron

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