Oh...the humanity...the loss of people I barely even knew. Arnie! Dont forget to grab the Conan Sword...
Drama queen. I felt my chair barely move, he he
It's true. Why else would I have accidentally clicked on this thread just moments ago... 8-P
We should make the scale for measuring earthquakes much greater, increase the highest to about one hundred. That should make all these other earthquakes nothing, and we'll learn to ignore them.
double that number, then I can get some work rebuilding California...just let's not hurt anyone...
partially unemployed...architecture field...anyone need any plans drawn up? I'm currently pretty available...
We should make the scale for measuring earthquakes much greater, increase the highest to about one hundred. That should make all these other earthquakes nothing, and we'll learn to ignore them.
each 1 in an earthquake is 100x more powerful than the last...
so a 5 is 100x more powerful than a 4...
There's no top to the scale...but the instruments have trouble reading HUGE ones...
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The strongest earthquake ever recorded by instruments was 9.5 on the Richter scale. A 10 on the Richter would probably devastate 99% of all man-made structures anywhere near the epicenter, and that is not even taking into account consequent tsunamis (if the earthquake occurred on the Ring of Fire, which seems likely).
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The strongest earthquake ever recorded by instruments was 9.5 on the Richter scale. A 10 on the Richter would probably devastate 99% of all man-made structures anywhere near the epicenter, and that is not even taking into account consequent tsunamis (if the earthquake occurred on the Ring of Fire, which seems likely).
Just so everyone knows my earlier post was a jest.
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We should make the scale for measuring earthquakes much greater, increase the highest to about one hundred. That should make all these other earthquakes nothing, and we'll learn to ignore them.each 1 in an earthquake is 100x more powerful than the last...
so a 5 is 100x more powerful than a 4...
There's no top to the scale...but the instruments have trouble reading HUGE ones...
Pssst, that alias is meant to be absurd...
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I have a book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, by Curt Gentry (Ballantine, 1968). It speculates about what would happen if California (all of it) really were destroyed by an earthquake. It's terribly out of date, but very interesting because it talks about various economic and social impacts that could ocurr (circa 1968).
That is like a 5 hour drive from where I live. No way I could've felt a 5.1 from here. Last time I felt any earthquake it just felt like my apartment swayed a bit back and forth a few seconds, almost like I was drunk at the time. I'm sure it's actually damaging at the epicenter, and everyone's seen what an earthquake can do, but California is so big, so much of it is largely unaffected at all by earthquakes.
I have a book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, by Curt Gentry (Ballantine, 1968). It speculates about what would happen if California (all of it) really were destroyed by an earthquake. It's terribly out of date, but very interesting because it talks about various economic and social impacts that could ocurr (circa 1968).
Sorry, don't need any more gloom and doom, he he
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double that number, then I can get some work rebuilding California...just let's not hurt anyone...
partially unemployed...architecture field...anyone need any plans drawn up? I'm currently pretty available...
Double that number and Kalifornica becomes a wading pool for those wanting to teach their kids to swim.
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I have a book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, by Curt Gentry (Ballantine, 1968). It speculates about what would happen if California (all of it) really were destroyed by an earthquake. It's terribly out of date, but very interesting because it talks about various economic and social impacts that could ocurr (circa 1968).
Everyone in North West New Mexico finds themselves undersiege by developers because they now have oceanfront property?
Were boobs involved?
P.S. The Richter scale steps up by 10, not by 100.
I don't think it was a boobquake.
Hey you know when it does go into the ocean everyone who purchased those parcels of useless land in Arizona will now have beach front property.
Nope. Eveyone east of the California fault will have beachfront property. The fault pretty much splits Cali down the middle vertically.
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Do you mean the San Andreas fault? There isn't a California fault AFIK. When the state actually DOES "go into the ocean" (i.e. create an inland sea separating CA from the mainland, as exists in Baja California Peninsula w/the Sea of Cortez) it will be closer to NW Alaska - we have more transform faults in that direction than subduction movement, currently.
Yep, CA is on the geologic fast train to Palin country.
Do you mean the San Andreas fault? There isn't a California fault AFIK. When the state actually DOES "go into the ocean" (i.e. create an inland sea separating CA from the mainland, as exists in Baja California Peninsula w/the Sea of Cortez) it will be closer to NW Alaska - we have more transform faults in that direction than subduction movement, currently.
Yep, CA is on the geologic fast train to Palin country.
Beat me to the punch! Also these days the Richter scale isn't officially used: there was some sort of misrepresentation of tremor strength at certain points in the scale so the standard is now the moment magnitude scale (not as catchy but it is what it is) but I suspect the press will continue to say Richter anyhow simply because of historical use. Oh well.
...We had an earthquake?