Thread: 7.0 Earthquake in Japan

Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

Not 100, 1000.

Omigawd

Originally Posted by Sav

10^9/10^7=10^(9-7)=10^2=cheeseburger

Depends. Are we talking about wave amplitudes, or actual energy released?

From Wiki:

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 a doubling of the energy released.

Happen a little while ago, nothing new reported on the news networks. I doubt the damage is that large or anything major happened.

Earthquakes are not uncommon in Japan, although i am starting to feel bad for them... been 1 bad year it seems.

Originally Posted by Rau

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14096707

So, will this affect patch?

7.1 on Richter scale, but apparently damage isn't all that bad.

man russia or china needs to lease some land to japan these poor people have no luck at all. or maybe the usa can give them north/south dakota and montana we dont need them anyways.

On March, The quake itself and the tsunami didn't dealt much damage to Japan. It's mako reactors issues that forced SE and other companies to shutdown their unnecessary electronic usage.

Also depends on what scale you're using. Richter =/= magnitude. Why? It's complicated and political. I'm not going there.

Generally speaking, the scale is not linear and an increase of magnitude or richter should be considered as a multiplier, not a sum.

/geologist

Hope Japan is safe, nature needs a serious ass kicking.