Chile shake up.

"Lil Red Riding In The Hood"

Chile had a much worse quake in May of 1960 - measured 9.5 on the modified Richter scale.

Probably a great many larger earth quakes have occurred, but no seismographs were available to measure them.

.... Phil

"Lil Red Riding In The Hood" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

No,

Here's a list of earthquakes (that have been recorded)...

1964 Prince Willaim sound , Alaska, Mag 9.2

You can sort thu the list here...

Cheers

That one, I would trust the declaration of, but it is difficult, as that is one hell of a number on a log scale.

A reference that old, I would question the accuracy of the measurement devices in use at the time, much less, their calibration.

What part of "recorded history" are you having problems with the meaning of?

Not for earthquakes, you retarded, senseless f*ck.

"Bart the Fuckwit Fart "

ROTFL !!!!!

.... Phil

This quake is not a magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale. It is an 8.8 on the Moment Magnitude scale. The two scales are similar but the MM scale has bigger numbers at the high end.

The Richter scale is based on the magnitude of the displacement or the amplitude of the movement. Each whole number on the scale is 10 times the amplitude of the previous number so the scale is based on the log base 10 of the amplitude.

The Moment Magnitude scale is based on the energy released and each whole number is equal to 10^3/2 power greater energy than the previous number. Ten^3/2 = 31.6 so the energy released is 31.6 times larger for each whole number increase in magnitude.

It turns out that the Chile quake was 501 times stronger in energy than the Haiti 7.0 quake.

Increase in energy = 10^ (3/2 * (8.8 -7.0)) = 501 times

The Richter scale was developed in 1935.

So yes, your entire case is insane, and your entire skull cavity is filled with nothing but CRAPOLOGY, boy.

So, yeah, I laugh heartily at your utter stupidity.

"TheJoker"

you completely asinine, FUCKHEAD TROLL !!

.... Phil

That's OK. We'll all be hit by a 200 Teraton displacement effect rock named Jesus soon enough. Maybe then everyone will wake up.

NOT for earthquakes, you retarded, brain bent, pussified, sub-human piece of shit!

God damn, boy! Get your doctor to put you back on the Thorazine.

Maybe then you'll stay the f*ck out of these groups, which you NEVER have anything to say that ANYONE wants to read.

Your stupidity is beyond pathetic.

Sheesh, what's with the fractional exponent? Apparently they decided to use a new measure but fudged it so it scaled sort of like the Richter. It would have been better just to go with a new scale, would have been less misleading -- escpecially for non-engineering types. If the MM scale relates to energy and Richter relates to movement amplitude, maybe they have the same distinction between them as between power and voltage (or current) gain: a factor of two in the dB number. I addition to the other stuff you wrote. Confusing.

Except that Richter also describes the volume mass displacement, in Mega or Giga tonnage. Even Teratons.

The wiki even extrapolates what they think the KT meteorite displaced.