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  1. BMW.SauberF1Team

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  2. UroTrash

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    #2 UroTrash, Feb 5, 2005
    How does 7.1 compare to the tsunami one?

    Would this be considered an "aftershock"?
     
  3. BMW.SauberF1Team

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    #3 BMW.SauberF1Team, Feb 5, 2005
    I don't know much about it being an aftershock, but I think the other one was around an 8, not too sure. How long did it take for the tsunami to come after the earthquake? A day or two?

    Edit: The one on Dec 26th was a 9.0 and the largest aftershock was on December 26th and was also a 7.1 (I'm assuming today's wasn't an aftershock) http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/latest_info.htm
     
  4. Sfumato

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    #4 Sfumato, Feb 5, 2005
    It was in the 9's. wave is a matter of hours after, I believe. Soon, if anything.
    http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/wmsg
    No tsunami predicted per above
     
  5. UroTrash

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    #5 UroTrash, Feb 5, 2005
    Would a 9 be 100 times bigger than a 7?
     
  6. Sfumato

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    #6 Sfumato, Feb 5, 2005
    Yup! All that book learnin' done us good ;)
    >>The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a seismogram. The diminution of amplitude due to distance between the earthquake epicenter and the seismometer is corrected for by subtracting the logarithm of the expected amplitude of a magnitude 0 event at that distance. This correction for distance is intended to make the local magnitude an absolute measure of earthquake size.<<
     
  7. Bryan

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    #7 Bryan, Feb 5, 2005
    Worse than that...more like a 1000.

    A magnitude 7 earthquake produces 10 times more ground motion that a magnitude 6 earthquake, but it releases about 32 times more energy (square root of ten times ten). The energy release best indicates the destructive power of an earthquake.
     
  8. Giles3

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    #8 Giles3, Feb 5, 2005
    Nearly, a 9 would be 1000 times bigger than a seven

    Edit: Darn, 2 relpies while I was calculating it! ;)
     
  9. Texas Forever

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    #9 Texas Forever, Feb 5, 2005
    Lee, I have been drinking single malt while cooking up the family grub for next week. But the second tag line in your sig... priceless!

    Dale
     

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