• Magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the coast of Japan/Russia.
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I live in Hawaii so we're really vulnerable to tsunamis generated by earthquakes in Japan, Alaska, and California/West Coast. I can see the beach from my window, so I'm really hoping no future earthquakes generate big enough tsunamis. My entire city evacuated up to the mountains when the big one in Japan happened a while ago, fortunately the tsunami didn't damage much other than a hotel elsewhere on the islands.
[QUOTE=deadoon;37231407]You mean 20 times less powerful, as double the power of a 7.5 would be an 8.0, and 10 times that is 9.0. It's easiest to think of it as reverse scientific notation. the first number is the number of 0s while the second is the condensed number.[/QUOTE] What are you guys even talking about It's a base-10 logarithmic scale right? So 9.0 in a linear scale is 10^9 and 7.5 in a linear scale is 10^7.5, or is that not what it means? Because if it does then you're both are wrong - it's 10^1.5 times weaker, and that is 31.62 times weaker. And what does that mean - reverse scientific notation? It sounds intriguing
[QUOTE=mrkaki;37242421]What are you guys even talking about It's a base-10 logarithmic scale right? So 9.0 in a linear scale is 10^9 and 7.5 in a linear scale is 10^7.5, or is that not what it means? Because if it does then you're both are wrong - it's 10^1.5 times weaker, and that is 31.62 times weaker. And what does that mean - reverse scientific notation? It sounds intriguing[/QUOTE] I think he means like 6*10^8 would be written as 8.6
[QUOTE=OvB;37225673]You better watch out. The Juan De Fuca has been itching to go forever. If it snaps with one large quake it'll fuck the whole Washington/BC area like the Japan quake/tsunami.[/QUOTE] Can't fuckin wait. I live right off the Columbia.
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