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To: rdl6989

someplace else said 7.

For those not familiar with it, this scale is logarithmic.

A 6.8 is 10 times as much as 6.7

so, a 7 is 1000 times stronger than a 6.7


16 posted on 11/30/2018 10:14:10 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

It is logarithmic, but the whole numbers are the magnitude increase.

Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; in terms of energy, each whole number increase corresponds to an increase of about 31.6 times the amount of energy released, and each increase of 0.2 corresponds to approximately a doubling of the energy released.


19 posted on 11/30/2018 10:21:01 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Mr. K
If this was a 7 how many times stronger was the 9.2 in 1964?


24 posted on 11/30/2018 10:30:14 AM PST by Rebelbase
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