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Old 11-30-2018, 07:00 PM   #4
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Default Re: 7.0 Earthquake in Anchorage Alaska

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Originally Posted by ursus View Post
The Richer Magnitude Scale is logarithmic. For example, a quake of 5 is 32 times more powerful than a quake of 4 magnitude. A 7 is really rockin' and rollin'. Your car won't be where it was when you parked it.
I may wrong (it haapens according to my wife!) but I thought 1 on the Richter scale was a 10 fold increase and yes, 7.0 is bumpy.
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