8.9 twice as strong as 8.8?
8.9 twice as strong as 8.8?
No. I don't understand the sciency-mathy part of it, but:
2.0 is 10 times stronger than a 1.0
3.0 is 100 times stronger than a 1.0
10 fold increase between readings on the scale.
yeah, the richter scale is base 10 logarithmic scale.
8.9 twice as strong as 8.8?
yeah, the richter scale is base 10 logarithmic scale.
fuck if I know. I don't get this richter stuff.
plus, I had misremembered the thread title saying 7.8 or so when I posted that (after following one of these live links).
Apparently, it's been extremely active there for the past couple of days:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php
44 earthquakes, mostly "off the coast of Honshu, Japan" since 03/09/2011. Maybe ActiveX is right.
I don't believe the seismologists when they say that earthquakes and volcanoes in different regions aren't connected. Push a bit over here, earthquake over there...push over there, volcano over here...they're all connected.
Chile just had another large quake a few days ago as well.
Many seismologists no longer believe that they are not related. In fact I think the current consensus is that Earthquakes very much to effect one another. They have seen evidence of one earthquake setting off another some time later. However it's still not very well understood exactly how it happens, nor the relations one earthquake has or does not have with another.
First reported death.
It doesn't seem plausible that the energy could be strong enough to cross two tectonic plates (I think the one between Chile and the Pacific plate are divergent) to set off another fault. But fuck if I know.
I just had my Geology midterm today (earthquakes were included). :\