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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	Earthquakes! 12/13/2011 11:45 AM
	I found this video that does a surprising comparison of the relative amounts of energy released in some well-known earthquakes. One full step on the 'Richter Scale' is equivalent to a factor of about 31.6 in intensity; two full steps is a factor of 1000. The video begins with the rather small 5.8 magnitude quake that struck Virginia, in the U.S., earlier this year. (A magnitude 3 quake would be about 1/16000th the intensity of the VA quake.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ooXt6p35Kzw#! __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#1 Re: Earthquakes! 12/13/2011 12:03 PM
	That's It! I'm selling my condo in Sumatra!
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sue Guru Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near Delaware Water Gap Posts: 1324 Good Answers: 83	#2 Re: Earthquakes! 12/13/2011 4:11 PM
	That's a great representation. Thanks!
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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Earthquakes! 12/13/2011 6:02 PM
	You're welcome! __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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Rockyscience Power-User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Near the New Madrid Fault. USA Posts: 269 Good Answers: 1	#4 Re: Earthquakes! 12/14/2011 8:22 AM
	Thanks. We are all waiting for the "BIG ONE". __________________ It's not Rocket Science
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34point5 Guru Join Date: May 2010 Location: in optimism Posts: 4050 Good Answers: 130	#5 Re: Earthquakes! 12/14/2011 8:33 PM
	That would look good as a cone __________________ There is no sin except stupidity. (Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900))
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Wal Guru Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phnom Penh Posts: 4019 Good Answers: 102	#6 Re: Earthquakes! 12/15/2011 4:52 AM
	That was nicely rendered. Thanks for sharing. Is a bigger one on the way? Maybe December next year. __________________ Difficulty is not an obstacle it is merely an attribute.
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