Haven't felt one out here above a 2 or a 3 for awhile, knock on wood. Yeah, everyone here knows about the Richter being logarithmic vs linear. Funny how when stuff like this happens in the "power centers" of DC and NY it somehow is a bigger deal than just another quake on the west coast.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 08/24/2011 04:26 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > And just to give our California dwellers pause, the Richter scale is not > > the only measure. It is logarithmic, and thus illusory -- a 6.8 is 100 > > times more powerful than a 5.8, and a 7.8 is 1000 times more powerful. > > Doesn't give us pause because that's just Earthquake 101 and mentioned > around here every time there is a report of an earthquake .... anywhere > in the world. > > I was listening to Thom Hartmann's show when the earthquake hit and he > really freaked out as the studio was really shaking. >
