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My friend just text'd me to find out if Yokosuka is affected. Her sister stays there at the US navy base.
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en
My friend just text'd me to find out if Yokosuka is affected. Her sister stays there at the US navy base.
Thanks. Sad times.
Not according to all the courses I'm reading.
No.
1.0 -> 1.1 = x10
1.0 -> 2.0 = x100
Wow. First wave was 24' high.
Revised now to 33'.
uh.... no
that doesnt even make sense..
what's a 1.1 -> 1.2? x10 too? wouldnt a 1.0 to 2.0 be 10^10 then? >.>
A tsunami warning has been issued for the continental US. I'd tell you more, but I can't get the related document to come up.
uh.... no
that doesnt even make sense..
what's a 1.1 -> 1.2? x10 too? wouldnt a 1.0 to 2.0 be 10^10 then? >.>
Are they talking the same size waves (30 feet+) as those that hit Japan? If so, the west coast is screwed?
A tsunami warning has been issued for the continental US. I'd tell you more, but I can't get the related document to come up.
The richter scale number they report, like 8.9 or whatever it is, is an exponent of 10. A 8.9 earth quake means the measured amplitude of maximum ground motion is 10 ^ 8.9 (micron).
So a full point increase in richter scale means a 10x fold increase in amplitude, but amplitude doesnt relate to released energy directly.
Im not sure what the relationship is, but I wouldnt be surprised if that was exponential by itself, so a full Richter point increase could indeed mean a (edit) 10^2 increase in released energy but perhaps someone who knows could enlighten us.
edit: Here is the graph from wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/RichterFreqEnergyGraph-en.svg